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Re: [9fans] detached/persistent sessions

Skip Tavakkolian
Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:51:21 -0800

> I recently set up a P9 cpu server on a Xen "colocation" service. My only wish 
> at this point is to be able to drawterm into the server and leave my session 
> running after I disconnect. Does any such feature currently exist?
> 
> If not, my understanding is it wouldn't be too terribly difficult to create 
> some sort of middleman between the drawterm video/keyboard/mouse devices and 
> rio that pretends to be connected while a session is detached a la GNU 
> screen. Or, is there a good reason why this hasn't been done yet that I'm not 
> aware of?

check out Recover:
http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/iwp9/cready/recover.pdf
/n/sources/contrib/paurea/recover4e.tgz

back in 2003/2004, brucee added support for aan(8) to an experimental
version of dt2k and wrote an fs (aanfs) for the plan9 side of the
connection.  it is handy for intermittent outages in a wifi network
but obviously not for session migration, etc.  if this is what you
want i'll put them on sources.  you'll have to port them to the
lastest drawterm.