On 7/13/14, 6:30 AM, Kevin Horton wrote: > A long, long time ago, there was a Fink package for GNU screen. That > package never made it past 10.4 transitional. > > I’m having issues using Apple’s /usr/bin/screen, and wonder whether it > is time to once again have a Fink screen package. Specifically, screen > hangs if I start it after sshing into either of my OS X computers. I > can start screen locally, detach, and connect to it over ssh. But I can > never start screen once sshing into a box. > > I see I’m not alone, and I note that someone claims to have identified a > fix. > > http://earthwithsun.com/questions/163881/cant-start-gnu-screen-on-snow-leopard > http://earthwithsun.com/questions/207654/gnu-screen-freezes-when-starting-session-over-ssh-works-locally-whats-wrong > > Am I the only one with this problem? If others have identified a > convenient work around, I’d love to learn about it. If there is no > workaround, I’ll have a go at a Fink screen package, unless someone else > wants to do that. Or, is there a working equivalent to screen I can try? > > Thank, > > -- > Kevin Horton > >
I have a vague recollection that we pulled screen on 10.5 because at that time Apple's was the same or a newer version and behaved better in some regard--I'm not sure what the nature of the issue was, though. You might check out tmux as a workaround. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
