I know it sounds like a spam for something beginning with X and ending in ax. But it's not. It's a question about screen.
The best way for me to ask this question is to describe what I want to do. At home I have a machine which is my gateway to the Internet. I use it for all sorts of things - it has my webserver on it, my MTA and it also has various VPNs running on it. One of the things it has running on it is a UML (User Mode Linux) instance. I always use screen to run UML in because it's easier to admin then (screen can be like a real linux console). I also have a laptop which I also run screen on and there I do most of my work. Occasionally I have to connect to my gateway from my laptop. Then I end up with the gateway screen running inside the laptop screen. Whenever that happens I wish that I could see the gateway screens IN the screen that I'm running from my laptop. So what I want is: when I connect from one screen to a sub-shell running another screen to push the sub-screen's context up into the super-screen. Clearly it can't be done at the moment... but it seems to me like it's the sort of thing that other people might want. I don't see that this would be impossible to make screen do... a new reconnect option would be needed, one that knew how to talk back to the parent screen. If the parent screen were listening on a socket then ssh could forward the socket to the client and the sub-screen could find it. Anyway... is anybody else interested in this? Nic Ferrier _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
