Veljko

Hello, Just want to preface this by saying I’m fairly new to SysAdmin work. That said, I appreciate any insight and would kindly ask if replies could avoid assuming too much context. :) I was tasked with opening a specific URL on every machine in the domain at a scheduled time. I set up a workflow (currently running only on manual starts from the Automation Hub) as follows: Windows: Start-Process "explorer.exe" "[URL]" macOS: open "[URL]" Linux (Ubuntu 24 test machine): see below On Windows and macOS, the commands work perfectly and the workflow ends as soon as the browser launches. On Linux, however, I ran into issues. The Pulseway agent always seems to execute commands as root (even when the “Run as logged in user” option is selected). I tried running the command as the seat0 user with runuser -u, but Firefox/xdg-open wasn’t inheriting $DISPLAY/$WAYLAND_DISPLAY, $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, and $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS correctly. After a lot of band-aid fixing, I ended up with this super scuffed one-liner (I am aware this is probably very suboptimal, but it at least launches Firefox so I'm not touching it until I know more): U=$(loginctl list-sessions --no-legend | awk '$4=="seat0" && $3!="gdm" && $3!="lightdm"{print $3; exit}'); if [ -n "$U" ]; then UID=$(id -u "$U"); (runuser -u "$U" -- bash -c '(( env WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-0 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/'"$UID"' DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/'"$UID"'/bus /usr/bin/firefox --no-remote --new-instance --new-window --start-maximized "[URL]" >/dev/null 2>&1) &) & disown'); fi; exit 0This does successfully launch Firefox with the URL, but the workflow action hangs for ~30 minutes (until max execution time hits, currently set to 1h). I’ve tried: >/dev/null 2>&1 & nohup disown spawning a subshell and exiting it in hopes that would trigger the pulseway agent to get a kind of "command executed" signal. But nothing has worked, the workflow still hangs instead of completing once the command is handed off. So I think I’m misunderstanding something fundamental either about Linux process handling, or how Pulseway agents execute/track Linux commands within workflows. Happy to provide any further information if needed, thank you in advance! Veljko (Max)