On my servers, I like to have two things:

• ~/README.md which documents everything that’s installed on the server machine; its purpose, paths, commands, etc etc
• A Byobu startup script which runs all programs, supposed to be running on the server, in byobu

I’ll use the Byobu Tmux integration. Tmux scripting sucks hard (any problem in the script is silently ignored), but it kinda works so we’ll use that. First, install byobu via sudo apt install byobu. Then, let’s create a Byobu profile named startup (it’s just a name, you can use foo equally well). Create a file named ~/.byobu/windows.tmux.startup with the following contents:

new-session -n stats ;
send-keys ./stats Enter ;
new-window -n growatt ;
send-keys ./growatt Enter ;
new-window -n syntak ;
send-keys cd Space local Enter ;
send-keys ./syntak Enter ;
new-window -n rslsync ;
send-keys ./rslsync Enter ;
new-window -n apt ;

The tmux scripting is horrible, so I’ll explain:

• new-session -n stats creates a new session and ALSO a new window named stats. The window will run your shell automatically.
• send-keys ./stats Enter will run the ~/stats script in the shell, without terminating the shell. Note the Enter constant which sends the Enter key, to run the ./stats script.
• new-window -n growatt creates a new window named growatt.
• send-keys ./growatt Enter runs the ~/growatt script in the shell.
• send-keys cd Space local Enter will run cd local (note the Space which inserts space – wtf) and keeps the shell running.

etc etc. To run Byobu and open all windows and run the script above, run:

$ BYOBU_WINDOWS=startup byobu

I like to have a ~/startup script which runs the command above. I simply run manually after the server boots up, from a ssh session.

#!/bin/bash
set -e -o pipefail
BYOBU_WINDOWS=startup byobu