On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 22:48, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 14:24:09 +0200, Joost De Cock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 08 July 2004 14:00, LeVA hurled the following on the wire: > > > 2004. július 8. 13:54, > > > Joost De Cock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > -> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > > Hello list, > > > > > > > > I'd like to know if it's possible to pick up a shell session that was > > > > running over a ssh session that timed out. > > [... more of my rambling] > > > This is not possible (thanks God!) > > > > Fair enough. I didn't think so, I was more curious then in need of a fix :) > > > > joost > > Actually I think it is possible. See the debian-user thread 'detaching > a process from an ssh session ??', one of the replies has message id > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. You can disown the > process and reparent it later, I believe. > > Also, you can instruct ssh to send keep-alive packets to prevent the > session from timing out in the first place.
You need an app called "screen". I've only just started learning but it's way cool. CTRL-A ? Will give you help when in there. Oh, and "man screen" of course :) cheers zen
