What is `fly console` session timeout?

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Hi, I am getting the error wait: remote command exited without exit status when keeping a fly console session for too long.

Is this error related to ssh, Fly or something else?

Is there a config option to increase this timeout if this is related to fly console?

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Is there a way to exit from the fly console session without killing the running process?

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Hi… If you don’t need the interactive session at all, then you might like fly m run --rm for this.

For example…

$ time fly m run --rm --name ephemeral -a app-name debian:bullseye-slim -- sleep 60
real 0m7.000s
user 0m0.200s
sys  0m0.035s
$ fly m list
ID              NAME       STATE    REGION
abcdef99543210  ephemeral  started  ord

(Still running!)

Hope this helps a little!

Aside: The double-hyphen before sleep isn’t strictly necessary here, but it’s a good reflex for the general case—when the command takes its own flags.

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Awesome thank you! Does the machine inherit the app secrets? It would be awesome if you could add that, in my case for example I would have to hard code the secrets as —env in the command, which decreases security instead of increasing it

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Yep, it should get the secrets of the app named in the -a flag.

(I just double-checked that and it did work.)

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