I have a headless server that sits in the corner and runs all my self-hosted apps. I run them all in screen sessions, so I can easily ssh in and restart them, or turn some on and others off. This works really well until we have a power blip, and I have to log back in and set up 5 more sessions.
Is there a convenient way to spin up screen sessions at startup, and then run scripts in each of them?
I’m running stock Ubuntu.
#selfhosting #linux
jnkrtech
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2026-01-07 03:42:35 UTC
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