On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 06:29 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > > > Hi, is there a way to "reconnect" to a ssh session that was > > > > disconnected and left running processes in the linux server? > > > > > You can't reconnect to a broken ssh connection, and in fact it > > > should have killed all the processes you were running. > > > > Unfortunately, I have seen many instances where ssh sessions do like this; if > > one happens to be running a yum update in one, and yum is downloading > > packages (putting yum into its unkillable mode, which, in my opinion is such > > an annoying thing; there have been a number of times I'd start up an update, > > have it run for a while, then need to leave (taking my laptop with me, and > > thus disconnecting the session, which can cause its own problems) where I'd > > like to just simply CTRL-C yum and have it do the Right Thing; yum just > > cycles to the next mirror (at least the last time a couple of weeks ago it > > did this) when you hit CTRL-C OR when you send yum a SIGTERM)), then you can > > get some really wierd artifacts with unkillable but not running yum > > processes; I have seen a few where SIGKILL didn't do anything, and all > > because of a network glitch. > --- > man screen > > screen creates a detachable session Or, depending on your bandwidth and how you feel about GUI's, look at VNC (using the module to export your console screen or vncserver for separate long-running sessions). -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com