Comments on: Screen? A must for SSH

By: links for 2008-10-29 | iLenceel

links for 2008-10-29 | iLenceel — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:30:40 +0000

[...] Screen? A must for SSH must….how about dtach…. [...]

By: Matti

Matti — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:49:26 +0000

@Jt; indeed, that’s a normal single quote – somehow the code gets screwed up, can’t seem to edit it (always changes back) :-)

By: jt

jt — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:59:08 +0000

thanks for the tutorial! is that supposed to be a regular single quote (‘) at the end of the hardstatus string in the ~.screenrc file?
i had to change it to make it work.

By: Mat

Mat — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:06:29 +0000

If you use emacs-style command line editing, CTRL-A (go to the beginning of line) is a bad command key. Add the following to your ~/.screenrc to change it to CTRL-O (the letter o):

escape “^Oo”

It’s also great to reduce many xterms to a single one!
-mat

By: Matti

Matti — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:19:10 +0000

The addition of ~/.screenrc is worth noting. I’ve edited the main article, there are a lot of options available when creating/editing your config file!

By: Chris Irwin

Chris Irwin — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:53:59 +0000

The man page is pretty informative. -S gives the session a name (easier to resume). Even easier is using “-d -R”, which creates or resumes a session with a given name.

screen -d -R WorkSession

By: Matt Simmons

Matt Simmons — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:26:11 +0000

@Jake

I know a reply a few months later is probably too late, but you can reattach

By: Sean McCleary

Sean McCleary — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:22:22 +0000

Making your own .screenrc file in your home directory can be very nice as well. This is what I use and it really helps manage screen better:

hardstatus alwayslastline
hardstatus string ‘%{= kG}[ %{G}%H %{g}][%= %{= kw}%?%-Lw%?%{r}(%{W}%n*%f %t%?(%u)%?%{r})%{w}%?%+Lw%?%?%= %{g}][%{B} %d/%m %{W}%c %{g}]‘

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:59:23 +0000

If you accidently leave your screen attached and you want to connect to it, you can use “screen -d nameofsession” (sans quotes of course) to detach it, and then attach it on the computer you’re on.

By: Adam Kane

Adam Kane — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:59:12 +0000

Nice write up, there is a related article your readers might learn more from located at http://www.foogazi.com/2006/08/25/ssh-screen-easy-admining/ that discusses how to use screen and ssh with passwordless keys to easily administrate multiple servers.

By: dailynet

dailynet — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:42:27 +0000

Ctrl+S is a “Pause” in linux environtment, Try pressing Ctrl+Q to un”Pause”.

By: else

else — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:07:05 +0000

Unfortunately it’s not possible to exit screen by pressing CRTL+D after previously having pressed CTRL+S… Can anyone confirm this? Using Debian Etch 4.0.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:13:15 +0000

Pressing CTRL-S allows you to search into previous screen-sessions.

You can always exit “screen” by pressing CTRL-D.

By: else

else — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:38:23 +0000

Do you know why screen freezes when pressing (accidentally) STRG+S? Thanks.