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Re: Bug#644788: Bug#654116: RFH: screen -- terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation



Hi,

Romain Francoise wrote:
> >    3) Tell people via the release notes that they should not run the
> >       dist-upgrade inside screen, but inside tmux instead.
> 
> Unfortunately tmux has an issue of its own for squeeze → wheezy upgrades,

.oO( Houston, we've got a problem. )

> the socket path was changed from /var/run/tmux to /tmp in order to
> remove the setgid bit from the binary. So while the protocol itself
> hasn't changed, the new tmux won't see the old servers unless given
> the path explicitly (as documented in NEWS.Debian).

Ok, but that either involves some more commandline options or some
symbolic link(s) and is therefore do-able for every better admin (i.e.
those who read documentation). *phew* :-)

Thanks for the information!

		Regards, Axel
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