We use screen for RF sessions which drop out leaving sessions around. It
works quite will, we restrict the user to one UV session and do some
checking around connections to ensure that the user and only the user
can connect to a screen session if one is there otherwise it is a usual
connect.


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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gabriel Green
Sent: Wednesday, 23 January 2008 5:01 p.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: [U2] Problems with disconnects - telnet

Hi all,

Back in the mvBASE days, a telnet disconnect would allow an interactive
user's activities to continue.  UV is "smarter" than this, however, and
is
quick to get rid of disconnected users.  At least, it does not behave in
the
same way.

What I would like to know is if there are facilities within UV to allow
this
sort of behavior.

One scenario I dreamed up involved using the UNIX utility screen (which
has
been ported to Windows with cygwin).  The issue would be tying screen
sessions to existing telnet sessions and incorporating security so that
we
do not have people resuming one another's screen sessions.  Has anyone
attempted this?  Or is there a third party tool to do this?

The key thing is: as much transparency to the end user as possible.  The
tools we have available on the client side are AccuTerm 2K2; and UV
(running
on various flavors of Windows 2000-2003) on our servers.  If screen is a
potential solution, the cygwin layer could be installed.

The reason I ask is because disconnects - which we have some control
over;
but often is left to the whims of customer infrastructure, can cause
garbed
up transactions; which gives us untold headaches.

Ideas, anyone?  We wouldn't go back to mvBASE if our lives depended on
it;
but we do need to solve the disconnect issues for our customers who
refuse
to pay for high quality data connections to our servers and the
associated
equipment.

Thanks much,
Gabe
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