From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 5 0: 2:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CF8E153C6 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 00:02:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.164.76]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990405070210.EJWV5752963.mta2-rme@wocker> for ; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 19:02:10 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 19:01:12 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: dead or remote screen sessions Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990405070210.EJWV5752963.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Here's an interesting/annoying problem with screen: # screen -list There are screens on: 59963.rc5 (Detached) 53764.mail (Remote or dead) 12476.top1 (Remote or dead) 3 Sockets in /tmp/screens/S-mike. # screen -r mail There is a screen on: 53764.mail (Dead ???) Remove dead screens with 'screen -wipe'. There is no screen to be resumed matching mail. # screen -wipe mail There are screens on: 59963.rc5 (Detached) 53764.mail (Remote or dead) 12476.top1 (Remote or dead) 3 Sockets in /tmp/screens/S-mike. # ls -lt /tmp/screens/S-mike total 0 srw------- 1 mike mike 0 Apr 5 11:39 59963.rc5 srw------- 1 mike mike 0 Mar 22 13:19 53764.mail srwx------ 1 mike mike 0 Mar 8 21:09 12476.top 12476.top is live, and can be resumed. The other two cannot. Has anyone encountered this problem before? I feel like removing the other two files, but just wanted to check. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message