[CLUE-Tech] poor man's kvm

[Chris Schock]

Yep, I only run it on one box. Give it a try, once you use it the pieces
and parts will make a lot more sense. Screen is included with every
distribution I've ever used, if it isn't already on your box then it's
probably on one of the cd's.

> On Thursday 19 August 2004 02:39 pm, Chris Schock wrote:
>> I simply fire up screen, open a few sessions underneath it, and open a
>> connection to whatever boxes I want in those sessions. Then if I need to
>> connect to it later or from another workstation, I just reattach the
>> screen and voila, all my connections are there.
>>
>> The ability to detach/reattach a screen session is the best part.
>
> I have a vague recollection of reading about that some time back...
>
> So you're only running it locally,  then,  and not on the other boxes.  I
> guess that makes some sense.
>
> Right now my one console on this box is ssh-connected to my
> firewall/router
> and commands mostly consist of "on &" and "off",  and since the former
> drops
> me back to a command prompt I can fire up mc or whatever on that box if I
> need to for some reason.
>
> Still playing with the various options when it comes to networking here...
>
>> > On Thursday 19 August 2004 11:58 am, Chris Schock wrote:
>> >> I use screen religiously and love it. It's been around forever, I
>> can't
>> >> imagine how much time it's saved me being able to flip between screen
>> >> sessions.
>> >
>> > You're not the first one to recommend that program.  What would I need
>> to
>> > do
>> > in order to be using it across machines,  though?
>> >
>> >> > On Thursday 19 August 2004 01:01 am, mike havlicek wrote:
>> >> >> If you are like me you have several unix/linux boxen
>> >> >> on a
>> >> >> "firewalled" private network. This is old news, but
>> >> >> anyway, you can use the ttys assigned to your F keys
>> >> >> to open desktops on the other unix boxen as long as
>> >> >> you "open" your xdm.
>> >> >
>> >> > I'm not sure how you mean this to work...
>> >> >
>> >> > Right now I am doing something of the sort,  only I'm using ssh on
>> a
>> >> > console to log on to a different box and then I can access *one*
>> >>
>> >> console
>> >>
>> >> > on that other box.
>> >> >
>> >> > What would I be doing different?
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > CLUE-Tech mailing list
>> > Post messages to: CLUE-Tech at clue.denver.co.us
>> > Unsubscribe or manage your options:
>> > http://clue.denver.co.us/mailman/listinfo/clue-tech
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> CLUE-Tech mailing list
>> Post messages to: CLUE-Tech at clue.denver.co.us
>> Unsubscribe or manage your options:
>> http://clue.denver.co.us/mailman/listinfo/clue-tech
>
> _______________________________________________
> CLUE-Tech mailing list
> Post messages to: CLUE-Tech at clue.denver.co.us
> Unsubscribe or manage your options:
> http://clue.denver.co.us/mailman/listinfo/clue-tech
>