[TriLUG] Virtual Console through ssh

[Steve Hoffman]

Are you referring to "screen"?

You can ssh to a machine
Type screen
start your command
press CTRL+A,D (that's press and hold ctrl then hit A followed by D)
exit ssh
ssh back to machine at a later date/time as same user
type screen -r
resume where you left off

There is a TON of other fanciness you can do with screen, but that'll
do what you want.

HTH
Steve

On 2/7/06, Randy Barlow <rpbarlow at ncsu.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>     I heard that it is possible to establish a connection to a virtual
> console through ssh that one could detach from, allow $PROGRAM to run,
> then later log back in, reattach to the console, and check the status of
> the process.  I've been unable to find information about such process
> using $SEARCH_ENGINE.  So, how do I:
>
> 1) Log into a machine with ssh.
>
> 2) Attach my ssh console to a "virtual console" (not one of the <ATL>-FX
> consoles)
>
> 3) Begin execution of $PROGRAM.
>
> 4) Detach virtual console.
>
> 5) Log out from ssh session.
>
> 6) Go do $OTHER_ACTIVITIES.
>
> 7) Log into the machine through ssh.
>
> 8) Attach the same virtual console to the ssh session, so the screen
> appears as if I had never left?
>
> Thanks!
>
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> Randy Barlow
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> Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
> North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
> rpbarlow at ncsu.edu
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