On 8/23/06, *Chuck Stickelman* <cstickelman@xxxxxxxxxx
<mailto: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
<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.
Mike