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Date:      Fri, 3 Aug 2007 20:57:48 +0200
From:      Momchil Ivanov <idiotbg@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Tim Judd <tjudd2k@yahoo.com>
Subject:   Re: attaching a terminal to 'join' another?
Message-ID:  <200708032057.54915.idiotbg@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <658266.20352.qm@web62405.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
References:  <658266.20352.qm@web62405.mail.re1.yahoo.com>

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=D0=9D=D0=B0 Friday 03 August 2007 00:02:51 Tim Judd =D0=BD=D0=B0=D0=BF=D0=
=B8=D1=81=D0=B0:
> Forgot to CC the questions ML.
>
> --- Tim Judd <tjudd2k@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > From Tim Judd Thu Aug  2 15:01:18 2007
> > Received: from [68.35.175.118] by web62407.mail.re1.yahoo.com via
> > HTTP; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:01:18 PDT
> > Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 15:01:18 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Tim Judd <tjudd2k@yahoo.com>
> > Subject: Re: attaching a terminal to 'join' another?
> > To: stapleton.41@gmail.com
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
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> >
> > I'm on the digest list, so I copy/paste the message to quote:
> >
> > ---------------------QUOTE:
> > Message: 16
> > Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 11:19:21 -0400
> > From: "Jim Stapleton" <stapleton.41@gmail.com>
> > Subject: attaching a terminal to 'join' another?
> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > Message-ID:
> > 	<80f4f2b20708020819l69e054a1ia070efba2b04d2ad@mail.gmail.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3DISO-8859-1
> >
> > Sorry if my question is a bit confusing - I'm not even sure the
> > proper
> > terminology, so I don't know what the best way to start looking is.
> >
> > I'm rebuilding a system at home, and I'd like to check how the build
> > is going at a slow time at work sometimes. I can connect to the
> > system
> > from work (ssh into my main box, and then from there, ssh to the
> > system I'm working on). I have a terminal opened on that system
> > (actually, another ssh session fron the main box), and I'd like to
> > have my new connection attach to that terminal session, if possible,
> > so that I can just pick up where I left off, and monitor it from
> > here.
> > Is this possible?
> >
> > Sessions
> > main desktop terminal A [ssh]--> workstation terminal A (where builds
> > are currently being processed)
> >
> > work desktop terminal [ssh]--> main destop terminal B [ssh]-->
> > workstation terminal B
> >
> >
> > I would like to have workstation terminal B intercept workstation
> > terminal A, or main desktop terminal B intercept main desktop
> > terminal
> > A. Can it be done? Where do I start looking, what are the words and
> > phrases of interest? I tried looking at both the bash and xterm
> > commands/man page, but they are rather long, and I'd miss what I was
> > looking for without having a clue in advance.
> >
> > I'm guessing something like /dev/?tty?? might work, but how do I
> > figure out which tty to use?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > -Jim Stapleton
> > --------------/QUOTE
> >
> > Can't the OP, Jim, use watch(8) with the -W option to interact w/ the
> > terminal?
> >
> > Nothing wrong with screen, but a built-in utility exists.

It`s possible, but he`d better use screen for updating/upgrading, since his=
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ssh session that initiated the process may die and then the process dies.=20
With screen the process will continue if his ssh session dies and he would =
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able to later reattach to the terminal in question.

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