On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 08:09:33AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
<zbyszek(a)in.waw.pl> said:
> Also note that running jobs in a systemd service has advantages on the
> server: better accounting, more transparency, logs are easier to read.
> The (old) default of allowing left-over session processes to live on
> seems especially bad on a server with multiple users.
Starting a one-off task under screen and detaching is an age-old server
management process. Breaking that is not acceptable IMHO.
This change was done for a reason: left-over session processes
are causing real problems.
You still can start a one-off task under screen, you just need to
invoke it in one the different ways described in
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-run.html#Examples
Zbyszek