Re: Running emacs deamon outside login

[Suvayu Ali]

On Thursday 21 January 2010 07:35 AM, Richard Lewis wrote:
> On Linux, I've been wondering whether there's a good way to run emacs
> deamon outside of my login process, so that I can log out and in again
> and connect to the same emacs deamon process.
>
> One sort of solution is running it using start-stop-deamon on Debian,
> essentially as described on emacswiki:
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsAsDaemon#toc3
>
> However, to get this to work I've had to hack it as I describe at the
> bottom of that section (running emacs using su).
>
> This may be more of a Linux question than an Emacs question, but does
> anyone know of any better ways to do this? It's essentially just some
> way to ensure that the emacs process stays alive when I log out.

You don't need to do all that, logging out preserves the `emacs 
--daemon'. Just use `emacsclient -ca=""' to connect to the daemon.

However I have seen another issue, it takes a long time to log out from 
the session I started the daemon. However for subsequent sessions, the 
login and logout is usual. I have seen this with XFCE and Gnome on two 
different distros. (Xubuntu 9.04 and Fedora 11) I am yet to investigate 
this in more detail.

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Suvayu

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