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What are "session leaders" in `ps`?

What are session leaders, as in ps -d which selects all processes except session leaders?
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Keeping a process running after PuTTY or terminal has been closed

I'm running a Node.js server off of a Raspbian (Debian) machine, and I'd like to start and stop the server remotely. This for me means using PuTTY to access the shell, except when I close out of the PuTTY terminal or it times out, my server goes…
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How to recover a shell after a disconnection

Am doing some work on a remote CentOS 5.6 machine and my network keeps dropping. Is there a way that I can recover my hung sessions after I reconnect? EDIT: am doing some updating and installing with yum and am worried this might be a problem if…
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Can I launch a graphical program on another user's desktop as root?

Following are other questions which I think I need to know: From a non X Session? (meaning root isn't logged into X) If multiple people were logged in on X, could I auto-detect who was on which screen, and thus programmatically detect which screen…
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tmux session lost in unknown pts, cause and possible solution?

I was trying to re-attach to a long-running tmux session to check up on a python web-application. However tmux attach claims that there is no running session, and ps shows a tmux process (first line), but with a question mark instead of the pts…
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Prevent Logoff from Killing tmux Session

I have noticed that a logoff (log out) from my X user session will kill any tmux session I have initiated, even sessions I had run with sudo tmux and similar commands. I am sure that this formerly did not happen, but some recent change has effected…
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How can I run a script that starts before my login screen?

I was calibrating my touch screen, and saw that the best tool around was xinput_calibrator. So I used it. It have two options (one of which did not work), so I am here for the second. It says I should execute this command "in a script that starts…
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Concept of controlling terminal in Unix

Can some one please explain in an easy to understand way the concept of controlling terminal in unix and unix like systems ? Is it related to a session ? If yes, then how ?
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Screen, or similar, for automatically resuming a flaky ssh connection

I often have to connect to a server over ssh in an unreliable wifi environment. On the server, I run screen, so if I get disconnected, I can reconnect and resume the screen session, and pick up where I left off, but the loss of connection is still…
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Reuse D-Bus sessions across login sessions

I access a machine through multiple login sessions. The sessions' lifetimes may or may not overlap. In my case, these login sessions are currently always over SSH, but I would prefer to handle local sessions too. I sometimes need D-Bus in these…
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How to save a session in Yakuake

I use the Yakuake drop-down terminal and would love if it could save my session of tabs somehow. When I have 6-7 tabs open, all named and everything, it is a giant pita having to re-create that on every reboot. Any ideas?
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Clear Xfce4 session

How to reset Xfce session? When I start Xfce4, it always opens 2 windows of Evince, Emacs and one terminal emulator. I remember I used this configuration once a week ago, but now it starts every time after logging in. How can I make Xfce4 start…
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Documentation: Architecture of Linux Session

I'm looking for a good overview documentation describing the the stack of daemons and services involved in a modern Linux session. Although having read various documentation about dbus, and systemd, I still don't get the big picture. In particular,…
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How to make startx use alternate xinitrc?

I don't have a desktop manager installed (and I don't want to). After logging in through the terminal I use startx to start the GUI. I have entries in ~/.xinitrc for my GUI sessions. Right now I have xmonad in there, but sometimes I want to run a…
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.ssh/config to start remote session in zsh

I would like to start a remote session without typing the following command ssh user@remoteserverip -t zsh I know that I can change the host names in the ~/.ssh/config to simply use something like this: ssh serveralias -t zsh But I want to remove…
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