[TriLUG] Virtual Console through ssh

Brian Weaver cmdrclueless at gmail.com
Tue Feb 7 15:17:55 EST 2006


Have you tried 'screen'? I use it all the time on my home machine. I
leave mutt running in the first shell. It keeps mutt from being killed
if my connection goes awol, and then I just reconnect.

http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/

-Brian

On 2/7/06, Randy Barlow <rpbarlow at ncsu.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>     I heard that it is possible to establish a connection to a virtual
> console through ssh that one could detach from, allow $PROGRAM to run,
> then later log back in, reattach to the console, and check the status of
> the process.  I've been unable to find information about such process
> using $SEARCH_ENGINE.  So, how do I:
>
> 1) Log into a machine with ssh.
>
> 2) Attach my ssh console to a "virtual console" (not one of the <ATL>-FX
> consoles)
>
> 3) Begin execution of $PROGRAM.
>
> 4) Detach virtual console.
>
> 5) Log out from ssh session.
>
> 6) Go do $OTHER_ACTIVITIES.
>
> 7) Log into the machine through ssh.
>
> 8) Attach the same virtual console to the ssh session, so the screen
> appears as if I had never left?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Randy Barlow
> Research Assistant
> Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
> North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
> rpbarlow at ncsu.edu
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