Re: persistent xterm sessions

["bostonlinuxandunix" <user=37@nabble.blu.org>]

 It sounds like an X11 version of screen, that can manage multiple 
terminal windows, is what you want. I had no luck finding anything 
like that in a brief google search. 

I guess what's needed is someone motivated enough to code the 
thing; it would probably make sense to start with the existing code 
for screen. 



On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Tom Metro <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> Jarod Wilson wrote: 
>> 
>> I have a thought... Serial console connections, managed by a console 
>> manager, which lets you reconnect to the serial console session, plays 
>> back log of prior stuff, etc... 
> 
> Interesting, but I'm not sure I see how that accomplishes the stated goals. 
> Lets ignore the hardware issues for the moment, and presume that conman can 
> manage an ssh connection that loops back to the local machine, so we don't 
> need to worry about having physical serial ports for each shell session. 
> 
> 
>> I have serial console output set up on a number of boxes in my cube. 
>> These are hooked up to server machine...[which] runs the conman daemon... 
>> I run the conman client on my laptop, instructed to point at the server. 
>> A simple 'conman foo' in an xterm gives you serial console on machine 
>> 'foo'. 
> 
> OK, so the client-server model used by conman lets you attach and detach to 
> an already running shell. I see it supports logging, but what about 
> in-memory scrollback buffer. That's really more of a UI function than a 
> serial console function. 
> 
> It sounds like screen is a better fit for the described problem. So far I'm 
> not seeing anything that conman does to address the gaps in the screen 
> approach. A reboot of the local machine still wipes away all state with 
> either approach, if the shells are running on the local machine. 
> 
> But I appreciate the suggestion. 
> 
>  -Tom 
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