We can attach a GNU SCREEN session remotely over SSH; in this example we'll open a GNU screen session on host1, and connect to it from host2.
First open and then detach a
You don't have to name the
First open and then detach a
screen session on host1, named testscreen:
host1 ~ $ screen -S testscreen
Then detach from your
screen session with the keyboard combination Ctrl+a+d:
[detached from 3829.testscreen]
Do not "exit" from shell only use Ctrl+a+d to detach from that session. One of the main feature I like about screen is that we can trace whatever user was doing last time (in case of script command a typescript file is created which show the complete working of user)
You can verify that it's still there with this command:
You can verify that it's still there with this command:
host1 ~ $ screen -ls
There is a screen on:
3941.testscreen (03/18/2012 12:43:42 PM) (Detached)
1 Socket in /var/run/screen/S-host1.
Then re-attach to your screen session from host2 (because we just detached our session last time not exited, so this will start from the last point were we were detached from session):
host2 ~ $ ssh -t user@host1 screen -r testscreen
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