[oclug] Displaying remote console session not your own

[Bart Trojanowski]

* Brian's Linux Box <b_mckee at myrealbox.com> [030605 14:03]:
> I used to remember how to do this :-)
> 
> I want to display the current screen on tty2 (or ttyS1, etc) when I'm 
> logged into tty1
> Lets assume I don't want to hit cntrl-alt-F2 :-)
> (Actually - I'm logged in remotely  - I can't)
> I thought I could `cat /dev/tty2` but that doesn't seem to working...

Although it requires foresight...  you can run your application (shell,
mutt, irc, etc) through screen.  

screen is one of the unix tools I could not live without.

Think of screen as vnc for terminals.  You can reconnect to a running
screen session from any terminal, you can detach from it and leave it
dormant, or connect to it from multiple terminals concurrently.  It
handles varied terminal sizes and termcap configurations, and can be
used to run multiple programs in split or overlapping windows.

B.

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