Re: Pick up a shell session after ssh timeout
On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 22:48, Jon Dowland wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 14:24:09 +0200, Joost De Cock <joost.decock@astrid.be> wrote:
> > On Thursday 08 July 2004 14:00, LeVA hurled the following on the wire:
> > > 2004. július 8. 13:54,
> > > Joost De Cock <joost.decock@astrid.be>
> > >
> > > -> debian-user@lists.debian.org:
> > > > Hello list,
> > > >
> > > > I'd like to know if it's possible to pick up a shell session that was
> > > > running over a ssh session that timed out.
> > [... more of my rambling]
> > > This is not possible (thanks God!)
> >
> > Fair enough. I didn't think so, I was more curious then in need of a fix :)
> >
> > joost
>
> Actually I think it is possible. See the debian-user thread 'detaching
> a process from an ssh session ??', one of the replies has message id
> <1088116338.24580.22.camel@zen8100a.freedbms.net>. You can disown the
> process and reparent it later, I believe.
>
> Also, you can instruct ssh to send keep-alive packets to prevent the
> session from timing out in the first place.
You need an app called "screen". I've only just started learning but
it's way cool.
CTRL-A ?
Will give you help when in there. Oh, and "man screen" of course :)
cheers
zen
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