How to autostart or remotestart something and stop it another way in 12.04?

Question

I want to autostart the software motion with motion -s either at start up of my Ubuntu 12.04 and/or via ssh from a different PC. All this is no problem.

My question is, how do I correctly stop it locally or from remote when the terminal where motion has been started has already been closed? And how to correctly close this terminal once motion -s has been started?

Answer 1

You should start the command from an instance of byobu. With byobu, you can leave or join the session from the local or remote system to start or stop the process. Also, if you connect via SSH and use byobu to run the command, the command will not be terminated when you disconnect since the byobu session will remain active on the local system.

For more on how to use byobu, check out the community docs here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Byobu