From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 21 3:21:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCF2E37B401 for ; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 03:21:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp09.wxs.nl (smtp09.wxs.nl [195.121.6.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AE9D43EDA for ; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 03:21:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from akruijff@dds.nl) Received: from cybertron.kruijff ([213.10.151.186]) by smtp09.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H7GVJ600.C35; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 12:21:06 +0100 Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 12:19:56 +0100 From: Alex X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.62 Christmas Edition) Personal Reply-To: Alex X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <523198539.20021221121956@dds.nl> To: Andrew Cutler Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: How do you suspend and resume a remote shell session? In-Reply-To: <20021221044802.GA8472@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1040445478.37580.5.camel@localhost> <20021221044802.GA8472@dan.emsphone.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear/Beste Andrew Cutler, Saturday, December 21, 2002, 5:48:02 AM, Dan wrote: > In the last episode (Dec 21), Andrew Cutler said: >> Does anyone know of a method to suspend and resume a telnet / SSH >> session. I know that it is possible to suspend and resume a serial >> console session, but is there any way to do it remotely using SSH? >> >> Essentially I'd like to be able to disconnect my session and then >> reconnect,say a day later and return to the same console session. > ports/misc/screen After you have installed this you do this: # screen # execute the command you want # ctrl-a d # exit The next time you can do: # screen -r And it all is back at the screen. -- Best regards/Met vriendelijke groet, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message