Need to take control of a terminal session.

[Robert Turcott]

Thanks Andy,

I've used screen and checked the man page briefly but didn't notice this 
functionality, it will be very useful.  Unfortunately, for the problem 
that started this, I needed to attach to a terminal session that had 
already been running without screen.  It's been taken care of now 
though.  (The user was running kermit with a modem connection to another 
remote client and we wanted to shut it down gracefully so it wouldn't 
leave processes running and hang up the remote modem. We bit the bullet, 
killed the processes, and were able to reconect to the remote machine).

Thanks again,

Rob.



Andy Jack wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 12:10:03PM -0400, Robert Turcott wrote:
> 
>>Anyone know how to take control of an active terminal session.  We've 
>>used Doublevision and several of our clients have it, but their download 
>>isn't working right now for an eval copy.
>>(Redhat 8.0, Kernel 2.4.20)
> 
> 
> "screen -rd"
> 
> Screen is a terminal multiplexer program, under which you can run one
> (or more) terminals.  If you login from another place, the above command
> will Detach-Reattach the session to the current terminal.  It is a
> GPL'ed program so you don't have to get an eval copy or even buy
> anything.
> 
> http://unix.freshmeat.net/projects/screen/
> 
> rpm -i screen or whatever it is you do under RH8...
> 
> Cheers,
> Andy
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