[ILUG] Reattaching to the output of a process

[kevin lyda]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:16:18PM +0000, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:08:30PM +0000, Philip Trickett wrote:
> > e.g. ssh into a box, start a process which outputs alot of status
> > information to the ssh session, background it, and at a later time, ssh
> > back in, and bring that process to the foreground and have it resume
> > outputting status information to the ssh session.
> Run the process from within screen :) you can put into the background
> as much you like and your screen session will be available to you
> later.

thank god.  i was getting worried.

yes, what you want to use is screen.  screen has oodles of neat features,
i highly recommend using it.  the one major gotcha is that usually C-a is
the prefix key to all of screen's commands.  this is an issue for emacs
users or for people using emacs bindings in their shell (99.9% of us).
to get a C-a to a shell in a screen session, type C-a a.

and please, please don't use vnc.  that's just plain silly.  for gui apps,
ok; but otherwise, no.

kevin

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