:( I will have to start all over again, hehehe. I will make sure to start screen next time. and I dont use vi, I use nano because to be honest with you it is easier for me to work with and is available in all redhat/centos versions. (maybe i should learn vi anyhow ;)) Thanks to Steve and Les, On 9/20/06, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 09:41 -0500, Erick Perez wrote: > > Hi, is there a way to "reconnect" to a ssh session that was > > disconnected and left running processes in the linux server? > > > > I know that's the purpose of the screen command, but just to spread > > know-how, is that possible? > > > > Example: > > 3441 pts/0 S+ 0:00 nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf > > > > I remotely connect to a machine via ssh and started to edit apache > > conf and i did not used screen (me bad). The session timed out due to > > an internet glitch and I got disconnected. > > How can I reattach (speaking in screen terms) to that ssh session or > > gain control to the nano process (or any other)? > > You can't reconnect to a broken ssh connection, and in fact it > should have killed all the processes you were running. However, > some editors will save your work when terminated abnormally and > let you recover in a different session. For example, if you used > vi filename > and were disconnected, you could recover later with > vi -r filename > I don't know anything about nano, though. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Erick Perez Panama Sistemas Integradores de Telefonia IP y Soluciones Para Centros de Datos Panama, Republica de Panama Cel Panama. +(507) 6694-4780 ------------------------------------------------------------