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Date:      Sat, 21 Dec 2002 12:19:56 +0100
From:      Alex <akruijff@dds.nl>
To:        Andrew Cutler <andrew@1stelement.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re[2]: How do you suspend and resume a remote shell session?
Message-ID:  <523198539.20021221121956@dds.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20021221044802.GA8472@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <1040445478.37580.5.camel@localhost> <20021221044802.GA8472@dan.emsphone.com>

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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


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