====== Launch a read-only web server displaying some sort of shell output ====== You need to do it in a part: The script below will launch a shell output recording session. #!/bin/sh #start_read_only_screen.sh echo /tmp/$STY touch /tmp/$STY chmod 0600 /tmp/$STY script -a -f /tmp/$STY rm /tmp/$STY Then you need to run the following: shellinaboxd -t -s /:$USER:$USER:/home/$USER:"/usr/bin/tail -f /tmp/$STY" & You can put it in a script, as ''$STY'' is exported. Please don't single-quote ('''$STY''') that variable.