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From: Bela Lubkin <belal@sco.com>
Subject: Re: GNU Screen on OpenServer 5.0.6
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 11:17:30 GMT
Message-ID: <20040424111730.GH11653@sco.com> 
References: <969b0ae6.0404231226.62ef1b41@posting.google.com> 

Steve Bushore wrote:

> I only have remote connectivity to my server (ie. telnet) to run a
> time-critical application process.  This application is run from a
> command line.  unfortunately, on occasion my network provider
> experiences hiccups and will drop my active session, forcing a
> reconnection and a restart of the process.  Actively searching for a
> solution to this problem yielding the following result - GNU screen.
> Running on Openserver 5.0.6, I've installed screen 3.9.4 from the sco
> skunkware CD with limited success.  Most of the documentation I've
> found tell me that this should be possible to configure but I am
> unable to get the desired feature functioning properly.  I can
> manually detach and reconnect screens without fail, but the autodetach
> function does not appear to be functioning properly.  If my telnet
> session drops for any reason, so does my screen process and all child
> processes.
> Any ideas on how to make the autodetach function work?

donais@gsig-net.qc.ca pointed at two old threads:

  http://groups.google.ca/groups?threadm=AAMaa.21765$cB3.126672@nnrp1.uunet.ca
  http://groups.google.ca/groups?threadm=3E60D25A.BD6729F3@att.net

but neither of them address your question.  The second one does point
out a different program (dislocate) with a more focused purpose (allow a
single program to be detached from and reattached later).

Anyway.  I run screen 3.9.5 all the time, and I (involuntarily) use the
auto-detach functionality many times a day, due to a crappy phone line.
I forget whether I got the binary from somewhere or built it myself.

It needs to be setuid-root for the auto-detach stuff to work right; is
it?

>Bela<

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