On 8/23/06, Chuck Stickelman <cstickelman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
M. Knisely wrote:
> A few months (year or more?) I posted a question to see how one could > get an application to run in a terminal and re-attach to that terminal > from ssh. The consensus was that Screen was the answer. Well, as I > used it I also found that it had a cool ability to allow two users to > attach to the same console at the same time. This was great when I > was training my server administrators to do all the ugly command line > stuff. Well, it looks like others have had luck with this too: > > http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/08/14/1946232 > > Honestly, it's a short article that just links to Screen's website, so > it's not all that interesting. Do any of you see a use for this? > Most of us run X so we would just fire up VNC and connect to the > entire desktop, but this is great for those situations where bandwidth > is an issue, or having X is just plain unacceptable. > > Anyone think a screen demo would be a good presentation? > > Mike K.
While at Miami Systems Mike Bell put together a terminal server to act as a console for several of the servers. It used Screen. It was very cool - either Mike or I could connect to that box and control one or more servers. I think there's a lot of applicability to the tool.
Chuck
Screen is an awsome tool. Personally I've not tapped into the full potential of in at all.
It's funny that you bring up that box from MSC. I'm now looking at doing something just like this here at home. Would have been nice if I'd saved that code off in my home directory. D'oh. Nothing worse that reinventing the wheel again. Version 2 will have to have feature creep I'm sure. Used pdmenu last time, maybe I'll did into dialog or whiptail or [dx]ialog combo and learn some more on those. Screen and kermit will certainly fall into the mix.