Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 00:52:43 +1030 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: Marty Landman <MLandman@face2interface.com>, "Brunoc@quipo.it" <brunoc@quipo.it> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to map pfkeys to screen -r cmds Message-ID: <200311170052.43440.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.0.20031116084913.01b0f2b0@pop.face2interface.com> References: <6.0.0.22.0.20031114190056.11752140@pop.face2interface.com> <200311161943.12408.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> <6.0.0.22.0.20031116084913.01b0f2b0@pop.face2interface.com>
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On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 00:28, Marty Landman wrote: > At 04:13 AM 11/16/2003, Malcolm Kay wrote: > >I think you may have misunderstood the nature of the virtual terminals= =2E > > What do you hope to do through ssh. The virtual terminal is relavent = only > > to the local machine -- if pretends that there are 16 (or however man= y > > are set up) separate screens and keyboards and these share the real > > screen and keyboard by > >switching -- normally throgh the Alt-f? combination. > > Ok Malcolm, I see what you mean. When ssh'g in the alt-f combo doesn't = give > me a new screen but when on the master console it does. > > Here's what I'd like... to have the most convenient way - w/o installin= g X > @ this time to have several sessions at once. Session may not be the ri= ght > word but still. The screen cmd is kind of close but the alt-f feature > you've explained seems much better, easier for me to use. > > My workstation is where I've been working from, su root'ing when needed= =2E > Besides letting me work on one monitor/keybd it also lets me copy/paste > from the workstation easily. But right now I've got the fbsd monitor on= and > the keyboard behind me with 3 sessions running. > Probably not what you want; but assuming the machine you are ssh'ing from is FreeBSD or Linux or something else with virtual terminals then you can= have=20 multiple local logins and from each run a separate ssh session on the rem= ote machine. Once setup the Alt-f? key strokes will switch between those sepa= rate=20 ssh sessions. It is also possible to funnel other ssh sessions or other types such as t= elnet through the original ssh session but this can get rather complex and prob= ably gains nothing over separate ssh connections. In other words I'm not quite= sure=20 how you do it! Malcolm
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