[gentoo-user] How to check a terminal session remotely

[gentoo-user] How to check a terminal session remotely

[James Stull]

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Here's my problem, lets say last night I start a rather long emerge in an
xterm window or in a separate session like Ctrl+Alt+F2 or whatever. The next
day I'm at work or a friends house and I ssh into my desktop so I can check
on the status of that emerge. Is their a way for me to take over a session
and see what's going on through the terminal?

I'm sure this is something simple, but so far google hasn't been much help
since I really don't know what key words to search for.

--James

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to check a terminal session remotely

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:29:38 -0500, James Stull wrote:

> Here's my problem, lets say last night I start a rather long emerge in
> an xterm window or in a separate session like Ctrl+Alt+F2 or whatever.
> The next day I'm at work or a friends house and I ssh into my desktop
> so I can check on the status of that emerge. Is their a way for me to
> take over a session and see what's going on through the terminal?

The best way to do this is to run the emerge in a screen session, then
you can do "screen -r" from the SSH session to see what's going on.

If you have already started the emerge from a normal terminal, you can
view the progress with "genlop -c". Emerge genlop if you don't already
have it.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

"Bother," said Pooh, as he was given another bad script.

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