[CentOS] bring back sub shells

Tue Dec 12 18:21:43 UTC 2006
Dustin Krysak <d.k.emaillists at gmail.com>

On 12/12/06, mike.redan at bell.ca <mike.redan at bell.ca> wrote:
>
> > For example, if i do run it with the & at the end it does what I want,
> yet obviously (to my knowledge) you can't get back to the subshell
> without killing it and restarting it. I have looked into the "screen"
> shell utility, which for the most part does what I needed, however after
> a few days the session had disappeared and I was not able to get back to
> it from another machine/ssh session.
>
> > Are there any other options?
>
> screen works pretty well, I have some screen sessions that are more than
> month old. When you connect from antoher machine, what command do you
> type? It should be:
>
> screen -r -x
>
> That forces a reconnect, even if someone else is already connected.
>
>
>
> On a side note: this is a nice way to collaborate on some work between a
> few people who are not at the same physical location. Everyone SSH's in
> to a machine, one person runs screen, the others run screen -r -x. you
> are now all staring at the same terminal and can all work together.
> Handy for teaching people.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike

Ah ok, the tutorial I had read said screen -R upon reconnecting. I
will try your way and test it further.

Good note for the shared sessions too!

Dustin