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GNU Screen is a software application that can be used to multiplex several virtual consoles.

GNU Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells.

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Better Method of Opening TTY Permissions

At work, I have a few legacy servers that I log into as root, and then su down to a user. I continue to run into an issue where after doing so, I am unable to run screen as this user. I don't want to open screen as root, because then I have to…
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Automate logging in to separate cluster nodes for monitoring (htop)

I login to the cluster and login to say N=3 nodes. Then, I laboriously open the N panes in eg tmux or kitty, ssh onto the login node to each, then ssh onto the specific node for each of the N nodes, then start htop N times in each pane, in order to…
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Custom systemd unit fails to start gnu screen and fork to background

I am trying to make systemd unit that starts a script inside GNU screen headlessly. I did base my work here on a couple of questions some had that were related. I also tested the ExecStart line in a shell as the user it should start for, and it…
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Screen inside Mac OS seems to go idle

We have Mac Mini with a classic Mac OS install (12) that runs a command every x minutes within a screen instance using a pipenv command that look like this. [scripts] some_pipenv_command="sh -c 'app_dir=$(pwd); while :; do cd $app_dir; python…
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Quitting screen without a prompt

I would like to exit my active screen session and kill (not detach) the session. This is done with CTRL + a and then k, however screen then then prompts you "Really kill this window [y/n]" and you have to respond with y to kill the session. Is there…
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How to run Python venv script with screen in crontab

I have a sh script with the following content: screen -mdS myscript /home/myscript/myscript_env/bin/python3 /home/myscript/bot.py This script executes a python script and opens it in a new screen. It works fine when executing the sh file in the…
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Starting screen session as a service, how do I transmit the screen session output (back) to the service log?

I have an application that is a interactive shell. I want this application to run as a service. To be able to access the shell while the service is running, I figured its best to start the service as a screen session that launches the…
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Howto start and detach screen with user environment on startup?

I want to start screen and put a couple of programs running inside on startup. I've seen many similar posts but none answered my question. so I put in rc.local following 2 lines: screen -dmS scr bash -c 'ytop; exec bash' screen -S scr -X screen…
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Cannot stop screen started with systemctl start

On ubuntu server 20.04 I created a service definition for a Minecraft server within a screen session like that [Unit] Description=Minecraft Server After=network.target [Service] User=minecraft Nice=1 KillMode=none SuccessExitStatus=0…
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Upgrading GNU screen in-place without restarting

I am looking into upgrading GNU screen following CVE-2021-26937. My question is simple: can I upgrade GNU screen without restarting my current screen, e.g., by a kind of in-place upgrade mechanism where the new version of screen would take over the…
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Do not log colors to screen logfile?

Running an application inside screen to log all output including stacktraces not caught by the applications logging. Screen is however logging all formatting like ^[[58;1H^[[58;1H which results in logfile being difficult to read and much larger than…
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Install screen on ubuntu 13.04 through .deb from web

I have a server on Rackspace w/ Ubuntu 13.04 (raring) that no longer has access to install packages through apt-get. Err http://mirror.rackspace.com/ubuntu/ raring/main screen amd64 4.0.3-14ubuntu9 404 Not Found Failed to fetch…
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Execute a service as a specific user under ubuntu

I'm running a gameserver and want to start it on a screen on system start, but screen is user specific, so I have to run the command as 'user'. So I wrote this short service script which starts itself as 'user': #!/bin/sh #/etc/init.d/gameserver …
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How to setup `screen` command to run for every ssh session?

I'd like to record the activity for every ssh user connecting to my box. I think screen could help with it. I'm thinking on having screen running for every ssh user automatically upon ssh login and recording its activity to some file. Is that…
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Possible to run commands in a screen through cron jobs?

I currently have an application running in a screen. I would like to run some commands in the screen through a cron job but would like to know if this is possible. Using CentOS
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