[Hampshire] Re-enter local bash session from remote

2008-12-23 Thread Graeme Hilton
Last night I was using my home server at a virtual console. I started a copy of a large amount of data onto a USB connected disk - it's USB 1 so tediously slow. Anyway, I forgot about it till now, and I'm at work, and I'd like to check progress. Is there a way of accessing an already running

Re: [Hampshire] Re-enter local bash session from remote

2008-12-23 Thread Graeme Hilton
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:54:48 - (UTC), graeme.hil...@fishter.org.uk said: Is there a way of accessing an already running virtual console remotely? Not this time, but next time run the command under screen(1). That allows you to detach the job and re-attach to it later: very useful in

Re: [Hampshire] Re-enter local bash session from remote

2008-12-23 Thread Hugo Mills
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 09:54:48AM -, Graeme Hilton wrote: Last night I was using my home server at a virtual console. I started a copy of a large amount of data onto a USB connected disk - it's USB 1 so tediously slow. Anyway, I forgot about it till now, and I'm at work, and I'd like

Re: [Hampshire] Re-enter local bash session from remote

2008-12-23 Thread Vic
Anyway, I forgot about it till now, and I'm at work, and I'd like to check progress. You could attach another terminal, then use ps to find the process in question and lsof to find out what it's doing... Vic. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface:

Re: [Hampshire] Re-enter local bash session from remote

2008-12-23 Thread Alan Pope
2008/12/23 Graeme Hilton graeme.hil...@fishter.org.uk: On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:54:48 - (UTC), graeme.hil...@fishter.org.uk said: Is there a way of accessing an already running virtual console remotely? Not this time, but next time run the command under screen(1). That allows you to

Re: [Hampshire] Re-enter local bash session from remote

2008-12-23 Thread Alan Pope
2008/12/23 Graeme Hilton graeme.hil...@fishter.org.uk: Anyway, I forgot about it till now, and I'm at work, and I'd like to check progress. You could attach another terminal, then use ps to find the process in question and lsof to find out what it's doing... I've been monitoring the

Re: [Hampshire] Re-enter local bash session from remote

2008-12-23 Thread Victor Churchill
2008/12/23 Alan Pope a...@popey.com: 2008/12/23 Graeme Hilton graeme.hil...@fishter.org.uk: Anyway, I forgot about it till now, and I'm at work, and I'd like to check progress. You could attach another terminal, then use ps to find the process in question and lsof to find out what it's

Re: [Hampshire] Re-enter local bash session from remote

2008-12-23 Thread Graeme Hilton
2008/12/23 Graeme Hilton graeme.hil...@fishter.org.uk: Still got about 10GiB to go out of 20... Could you not kill it and restart using rsync (in a screen) which would then effectively carry on from where it left off. Then you really could watch the progress. I could, but when I killed and

Re: [Hampshire] Re-enter local bash session from remote

2008-12-23 Thread Steve Kemp
On Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 09:55:04 +, Keith Edmunds wrote: Is there a way of accessing an already running virtual console remotely? Not this time, but next time run the command under screen(1). That allows you to detach the job and re-attach to it later: very useful in exactly the

Re: [Hampshire] Re-enter local bash session from remote

2008-12-23 Thread Graeme Hilton
On Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 09:55:04 +, Keith Edmunds wrote: Is there a way of accessing an already running virtual console remotely? For this situation it doesn't help, but you might have luck starting x11vnc over ssh with tunnelling to view your desktop. Somehting like ssh -X

Re: [Hampshire] Re-enter local bash session from remote

2008-12-23 Thread Graeme Hilton
On Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 14:38:08 -, Graeme Hilton wrote: Good suggestion, but will it connect to a virtual console - not an X session? Ahh, no. But you can get that via conspy. That sounds promising. In any case, the copy has finished, apparently without problem. Now to get on with

Re: [Hampshire] Re-enter local bash session from remote

2008-12-23 Thread Paul Tansom
** Alan Pope a...@popey.com [2008-12-23 11:09]: 2008/12/23 Graeme Hilton graeme.hil...@fishter.org.uk: On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:54:48 - (UTC), graeme.hil...@fishter.org.uk said: Is there a way of accessing an already running virtual console remotely? Not this time, but next time run

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu LVM LUKS

2008-12-23 Thread Antony
From: Paul Stimpson That's what I was thinking too but the machine is a dual core 2.4 and the 2 cores are alternating between 43% and 57% (one on each then swapping). I assume that random generation is a compute-bound activity so if that was the bottleneck I would have expected near on 100%