Re: local and remote screens

[Pia Mikeal]

The best thing to do would be to detach the remote screen before you log 
out of the remote box instead of detaching only from your local machine. 
To detach from a screen within a screen, the command would be

^a a d
where ^ denotes the control key.

Then, when you log back into the remote machine from anywhere, you can 
simply type

screen -r

If for some reason, you forget to detach from the remote screen and so it 
is still attached to the local machine, tom, you can force it to detach 
from tom and attach to harry if you are logged in from harry, by typing

screen -D -R

I hope I understood your problem correctly and that this helps.



On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Rich Boyce wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I've just started using screen in earnest, and am very impressed. However, 
> I'm currently struggling with one thing.
>
> If I start screen on my local machine (tom), log into another (dick) through 
> SSH, then detach, I cannot reattach to the session when I log into dick from 
> a third machine, harry. This is because the screen session is actually on 
> tom; I therefore need to log into tom in order to reattach. If tom is shut 
> down, I (presumably) lose my session.
>
> At the moment I'm not running screen on my local machine, and only on remote 
> machines after SSHing in. This lets me reattach after connecting from a third 
> machine. I'd like to run screen on my local machine too, but maintain the 
> ability to detach/reattach on remote machines. How do you accomplish this? Is 
> there a magic screen option I'm missing?
>
> Thanks,
> Rich
>
>
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Pia Mikeal
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Purdue University
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