[General] screen command or a replacement

[Eng. Sabah Al-Sabah]

Hi,
 
I agree with Bashar,
 
If you create a screen and then run your command and after that if you loose
you connection to your host, you can alway login again and attach to your
previous screen session. you process that was launched during the last
connection should still continue to run.
 
However it is possible that the same network problem that make you lose the
screen connection may also be responsible for the interruption of the commad
(ie wget) !!!
 
I never tried passing the commad as an argument to screen!
 
 
 
 

 

Best Regards,

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Eng. Sabah Al-Sabah

General Manager

Technical Systems Est.

sabah at techsys.net

www.techsys.net <http://www.techsys.net/> 

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-----Original Message-----
From: general-bounces at oskw.org [mailto:general-bounces at oskw.org] On Behalf
Of Bashar Al-Abdulhadi
Sent: Monday, December 25, 2006 5:33 PM
To: General OpenSource Discussion
Subject: Re: [General] screen command or a replacement



W'salaam Abdulaziz,

although your session shouldn't be lost if your terminal dies before
pressing ^AD but i noticed "some" applications (not copy or wget) dies if
you dont press ^AD before your terminal dies, anyhow what i thought of is:

# screen

# script -t 0 monitor.txt

# ^AD

# tail -f monitor.txt

man script for more flags




and for dying maybe cause you are running `screen commandgoeshere` not
running `screen` then hitting enter then `commandgoeshere` ?







Abdulaziz AL-Asfour wrote:


Salamu Alaykom...

To all *nix experts:

For example you want to download or copy a big file ... or you want to start
any command using the terminal (from a remote PC):



*	You want to see the output of this command 

*	While seeing the output, if the session gets disconnected, you do
not want to interrupt the operation (Coping or viewing the output of the
command) 

If i do: 


*	screen /opt/application/bin/server 

or 

*	screen wget url.tar 

If there is a network problem and your terminal gets disconnected before
pressing (Ctrl-A-D), you will lose your session (Correct me if I am wrong)

I do not want that to happen.... and I want at the same time to view the
output of the executed command (Maybe putting it in the background won't do
the trick also).... 

Any tips, shabab? :)



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