Re: [uml-user] Problems reconnecting to serial line

[Paul W. <pd...@ex...>]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 07:53:06AM -0700, Dan Lund wrote:
> >That works for me, but not for users.  I need to make the system
> >fool-proof so that users can't lose the ability to connect to their
> >machine just because they hit the wrong button when leaving screen.
> >Also, I use a rather more stripped down terminal emulator as I don't
> >wish to make screen available to users.
> 
> You can just disconnect the tty from screen and it'll still be up.  
> About the only thing you can't do is do a "kill -9 `pidof screen`" :)

You can detach (Ctrl-A D) but you can't quit (Ctrl-A \ or Ctrl-A Q or
whatever it is), as this causes the TTY to hang up, and if you used that
TTY for output from init during boot, it won't respawn.

Do you see different behaviour when you quit screen?

> I use screen for all of my UML sessions, and it's really idiotproof.  
> That's an important feature for me, considering I'm using it.
> But, if you don't want screen available to the users, you can run screen 
> as another uid, and make the serials available.

I don't understand what you're suggesting here.

Paul