Headless start on a Pi

[thecivvie]

Is there anyway to start MX on a Pi headless. I currently have a monitor plugged in but the plan is to stick the lot in a box and put it up a mountain somewhere

[water01]

Install VNC and start it from a VNC console on another networked computer?

[tumutbound]

I don't have a monitor/keyboard on my Pi, I just use ssh from my main computer.

THe problem is that when the network connection is closed for any reason, CumulusMX stops as the terminal session is closed.
Using nohup doesn't work neither does mono-service.

[steve]

My Pi is headless, I use TightVNC. I guess that's not an option though if you don't have a desktop running on the Pi?

[thecivvie]

I can ssh in alright, but as tumutbound says, the minute you log out it stops MX working. I am going to try a bash script to see if that works, Of course the problem is there is no way to restart CumulusMX remotely short of rebooting

[steve]

Presumably turning it into a service/daemon will solve some of these issues?

[tumutbound]

Presumably turning it into a service/daemon will solve some of these issues?

It should do.

I've tried a few options to try to start it as a service but the fact the CumulusMX waits for and responds to stdin, kills the process. (at least I think that's what it is)

[henkg]

Same here. Running a headless RPI, accessing it with a Windows PC using Putty. After closing the Putty session (or shutting down the PC, which is closing the Putty session), CumulusMX stops.

Being a Linux novice, I also would like to know how to keep CumulusMX running.

[mcrossley]

nohup may work if MX wanted specific input like a Ctrl-Z to terminate rather than any input?

[swyman18]

I've tried a few things as well to "daemonize" the startup command but unfortunately my Linux skills are not the best.

[mcrossley]

I'm going to have the same problem, I don't run a windows shell, just SSH in to the rPi. Still I can't run it on the Pi yet anyway as it overwrites the realtime.txt coming from my Cumulus 1 install as soon as I enable FTP.

[freddie]

I installed screen ('apt-get install screen', then 'screen mono /path/to/exe', then ctrl+alt+d to detach) and that worked.

[hmiller]

I will but installing mine on the PI this evening. When I used consolewd I used "screen" to keep it running at boot time. Perhaps that may work for this as well.

[hmiller]

You beat me to it. Glad that works.

[swyman18]

I see executing screen allows me to launch CumulusMX and then quit the SSH session, that is cool.

Dumb question though, if I log in later under a new SSH session, is there a way to stop the program running under screen? Or do I just need to kill the process manually?