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[ILUG] Switch to another tty remotely

[ILUG] Switch to another tty remotely

Anders Holm aholm at amazon.com
Tue May 24 17:32:54 IST 2005


Stephen Reilly wrote:
> Is is possible via an ssh terminal to switch to another tty which you
> have logged into on a different machine? I've googled with all my might
> and can't seem to come up with anything. I basically want to leave stuff
> running in an account while logged in at work and then at home ssh into
> the box and switch to that user session. I'm not hopeful just curious.
> 
> Regards,
> Stephen

What you want is called screen. man screen for all the lovely nitty 
gritty details.

//anders



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