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Date:      Wed, 9 Jul 2003 23:48:30 -0500
From:      Stephen Hilton <nospam@hiltonbsd.com>
To:        "Marvin J. Kosmal" <lamsokvr@xprt.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Change terminals
Message-ID:  <20030709234830.3edb9a5d.nospam@hiltonbsd.com>
In-Reply-To: <1057642510.726.140.camel@farm-libranet>
References:  <1057642510.726.140.camel@farm-libranet>

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On 07 Jul 2003 22:35:08 -0700
"Marvin J. Kosmal" <lamsokvr@xprt.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> Question
> 
> When you ssh into your work machine from home
> 
> How or can you change the terminal you are on..
> 
> 
> 
> example below
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Last login: Mon Jul  7 22:23:50 2003 from clark.lab
> mkosmal@libranet-lab2:~$ w
>  22:31:55 up 4 days,  8:42,  7 users,  load average: 1.16, 1.03, 1.01
> USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
> mkosmal  :0       -                Thu13   ?xdm?  14:27   4.09s
> /usr/bin/icewm-experimental
> mkosmal  pts/0    :0               Thu13    4days  4days  4days
> ./setiathome
> mkosmal  pts/1    :0               Thu13    4days  0.07s  0.07s -bash
> mkosmal  pts/2    :0.0             Thu15    4days  0.31s  0.28s ssh
> mkosmal@lab
> mkosmal  pts/3    :0.0             Thu16    4days  0.00s  0.00s -bash
> mkosmal  pts/4    :0.0             Thu16    4days  0.04s  0.04s -bash
> mkosmal  pts/5    pdx-ppp374.pop1. 22:31    0.00s  0.04s  0.02s w
>  
> 
> 
> I did the w.  and am on pts/5
> 
> How do I get to pts/0??????
> 
> 
> TIA

Marvin,

Try the program called "screen" in the ports tree at:
/usr/ports/misc/screen

A very usefull utility to allow you to attach and detach from 
terminal sessions. Once you start using it you will never 
go back, like FreeBSD.

Regards,

Stephen Hilton
nospam@hiltonbsd.com



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