* Yossi Kreinin <[email protected]> [2007-01-15 11:15]: > I would appreciate any advice regarding the management of > screen sessions since that's my primary defense mechanism > against the crashes of my desktop. In particular, I wonder how > to tell a dead screen from a living one.
Generally it works just fine. I never had an issue with screen, in any case, and not with the `-wipe` switch either. The way to tell dead sockets from the living, I believe, is to open the socket and see if anyone's listening. Which brings me to: > Silly of me to beleive screen which told me I had "dead" screen > sessions and suggested to run `screen -wipe`, which put a > living session into a coma. Is it conceivable that... a) those screen sessions were running on a different machine? (Home directory mounter over NFS f.ex.?) Sockets created by screens on machine A would, obviously, appear dead when invoking screen on machine B. b) the other screen session that's running put its sockets in a different place and the one you just invoked is actually looking at dead sockets? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
