systemd-inhibit doesnt work with cinnamon gui shutdown button

[wullewu]

Hi,
I have a backup-script for my Linux Mint machine. I wanted to block shutdown, sleep or logout commands until the script is running.

systemd-inhibit --what=shutdown:sleep:idle:handle-power-key:handle-suspend-key:handle-hibernate-key:handle-lid-switch tar -czf /media/fabian/hdd_extern/backup_fabian/home_$datum.tar.gz /home/fabian/*

So far so good. It works when i try to shutdown the machine via commandline, but when I press the shutdown button in the cinnamon gui the user logs off an the process gets terminated.

Has anyone an idea how to fix this? Thanks for your answers

[g3rb]

Same for me !

[Termy]

Use nohup before your command; it keeps the process alive, if the HUP signal is sent to it. Might help. You can also tell your script what to do if it detects the HUP (or other) signal, using the trap builtin -- see help trap. Example usage of the trap command:

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#!/bin/bash

trap 'printf "\nSignal HUP (1) or INT (2) detected.\n"' HUP INT

for INT in {9..1}; {
        printf "\rSleeping for %d second(s)..." "$INT"
        /bin/sleep 1s
}

printf "\nThe script executed without being hung up.\n"

Send the HUP or INT signal during the 9-second countdown (with kill or ^C) to see it work.