On 20/10/05, Maciej ?enczykowski <maze@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > thing is, i need to learn how to make a new screen and be able to attach
> > back to it as i wasnt able o attach to this one even though it was still
> > there till done and went away.
>
> "screen -r" to reattach or "screen -d -r" to detach another connection and
> reattach here.
Yep, that's pretty much it.
# Run screen
screen
# Do stuff
stuff
# Then "detach" (the meta key's usually CTRL)
CTRL-a d <--- This detaches from your session but leaves it running
# SSH back to the system then re-attach
screen -r
It's all pretty well explained and documented in the Gentoo Wiki as
someone earlier posted.
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Using_screen#First_steps
Will.
