Re: local and remote screens

[Rich Boyce]

Hi Pia,

Pia Mikeal wrote:
> 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.

Bingo! Nested screens seems to be what I was after, and works for me. I 
tried nested screens before, but didn't know about the ^a-a-d to control 
the nested screen session, so I could only control the top-level screen. 
This is perfect.

> 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

Thanks, that's very useful too. I think I've got what I'm after.

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

Certainly does! Thanks very much,

Rich