SSH: keep login active/Login to a previously started session

WarMachine · Apprentice Joined: 15 Jul 2002 Posts: 181

What I'm looking to do is (over ssh) keep my login active even if I close off the connection from the client comptuer (it's windows, so this will most likely be used for reboots). I'd like to log back in and have my processes stilll running and windows, whatnot where they were when I left them before. I hope I'm not asking for a miracle, but anything is possible with *nix.
If it helps I run sshd from openssh's package on the host machine, and ssh.com's free trial client on my client machine.

msteller · Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2002 7:41 am Post subject:

emerge screen

Screen is an application that allows you to create virtual screens in a single terminal session. You can disconnect and re-attach to the previous sreen session later from any new terminal session.

Notes:
screen (starts screen)
ctrl-a c create new virtual screen
ctrl-a ctrl-a swap to previous screen
ctrl-a n swap to next screen
ctrl-a esc arrow up or down thru virtual buffer. esc to exit scrolling.

screen -r (re-attach to disconnected session)
screen -rd (re-attach to session and disconnect connected terminal)
useful if you left your session connected on a remote pc

rizzo · Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2002 2:17 pm Post subject:

Yes screen is the answer. It has saved me because when I'm at home and my VPN connection disconnects I can just log back in and view my oracle queries in progress.

Just another vote for screen.

WarMachine · Apprentice Joined: 15 Jul 2002 Posts: 181

screen rules, thanks guys :mrgreen:

Riveri · Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 3:38 pm Post subject:

can i use screen somehow to X programs...

i just keep getting this when i put screen -r

konqueror: Fatal IO error: client killed
ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 7323, errno = 32

in that case i was trying to open session where i had konqueror open...

or is there some better prog for this ?

aleks04 · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 13

VNC would be my choice for X stuff. For that, instead of running stuff in an X server, you run it in a VNC server, to which you can connect any time and even share connection. Though ofcourse it's not as fast as an X server, it still works pretty well.

One of the versions of VNC out there is TightVNC: http://www.tightvnc.org/
or `emerge tightvnc` .

Riveri · Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 8:40 pm Post subject:

Thanks!

It works just like i wanted it to work...

wers · n00b Joined: 14 May 2007 Posts: 40

Good day. I wonder what happens when i occasionally close the ssh session which was without screen support? It has 107 packages in recompiling. Is gentoo still working on this task or not? I've already read the putty's faq but couldn't find the answer...

Bio · Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:52 pm Post subject: