Ok, maybe i should have been more clear. I am running win2k at work (not my choice) and i use putty to ssh to my home box. how does that change things? Thanks a lot for your time. ROss ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Larsen" <plarsen@famlarsen.homelinux.com> To: <psyche-list@redhat.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 11:25 AM Subject: Re: Screen Command > Ross Ferson wrote: > > RH vs Other Distributionshere is a scenario: > > > > I am at work, and I am ssh'd into my box at home. I start a long > > process and it is still running when i leave for home. When i get > > home i would like to "take over" the session that i started at work. > > ie. see what is going on and interact with it. I was told the screen > > command could do this but i read up and can't get it to work. Is it > > poss? if it is, could you show me an example to accomplish my task? > > thanks~ > > Ahhh - screen is your best friend EVER :) > I've used it for a little more than 3 years, and I wonder how I did before > it. > > In your case - at work, start your session with "screen". Then start using > your terminal. Screen will even keep multiple terminals open - use ctrl-a+c > to create a new session. You can have at least 10 sessions (0-9) open, plus > a few additional special symbols (like -). To switch between sessions, use > ctrl-a # where # is the screen number. Try ctrl-a+? to get a nice help on > what commands are available. > > When done at work, you can either just keep your session up and lock your > terminal, or you can deatch the screen session and log out. To detach you > use ctrl-a+d. Now you can logout or secure your terminal as usual. > > >From home, you'll ssh back (or whatever you use) into the box. To get a hold > of your detached screen session you write "screen -rd" (resume detached) - > and you're right back where you left off at work :) > > You can have multiple screen process per user - which will make the command > a little tougher to write (screen -list) but keep to one screen process in > the beginning - makes things a bit easier. > > To exit screen, just terminate the sessions inside screen, and when the last > one terminates, screen terminates. > > Once you get used to screen, you'll find a series of interesting commands to > do fun things. > > Regards > Peter Larsen > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list > -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
