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AlgoJerViA

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Registered: 2014-08-06

Posts: 24

tmux start-server fails

I'm trying to start the tmux server without starting a session. According to the man page this is don with

  $ tmux start-server

however this allways fails. The logs contains this:

tmux-client-2896.log

got 203 from server

tmux-server-2898.log

server started, pid 2898
socket path /tmp/tmux-1000/default
new client 7
got 100 from client 7
got 101 from client 7
got 102 from client 7
got 103 from client 7
got 104 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 105 from client 7
got 106 from client 7
got 200 from client 7
cmdq 0x13b6560: start-server (client 7)
writing 203 to client 7
lost client 7

I have no problem running tmux new-session.

//AlgoJerViA

mkoskar

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Registered: 2014-07-16

Posts: 64

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Re: tmux start-server fails

In short, you can't start tmux server without having it creating a session. "start-server" command should be used for cases where you create session in your configuration file (e.g., tmux.conf).