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Line endings when using GNU Screen

I'm seeing some slightly odd behaviour when using GNU Screen 4.00.03 on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 system. If I connect without Screen, looking at the logs I can see each line is terminated with ...
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SSH screen (CentOS) crashes

I use the screen command to run a Minecraft server on my CentOS 6.4 machine. However, once I end the SSH session, the Minecraft server and the screen will eventually simply stop such that when I come ...
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Is there a way to maintain ssh-agent connectivity in different screens?

Whenever I use ssh-agent for passwordless logins it doesn't work across different logins and screen sessions, even if they are concurrent. I suspect it uses some shell variables that don't work ...
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Log in with specific shell at terminal login

If I log in to a system over ssh, I can use the default shell with a simple ssh user@host, or specify something like ssh user@host 'bash --norc --noprofile' or ssh user@host ksh. Is it possible to ...
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systemd service that needs .ssh/id_dsa password

I have a systemctl service that starts a process smd-loop in a screen session. This process requires acces to remote SSH sources (for syncing purposes) and thus needs to be able to access my id_dsa ...
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Redirect linux console on boot

Is it possible on boot to redirect the console output to a screen session? The server has no monitor attached, and I'd like to be able to see the primary console output. I've seen other posts about ...
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How to efficiently use Console2 with screen/tmux/byobu?

I'm using Console 2 and msysgit's bash to SSH into my Linux machines. There, I'm using screen (but considering tmux and/or byobu), but currently simply with one single-terminal session per ...
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How to effectively use screen and SSH?

I'd like to configure SSH and screen such that a login will always reattach to a screen session. Ideally, that session would not quit but detach when I press C-d. How can this be achieved? And what ...
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GNU screen freezes trying to reattach

I have several long-running GNU screen sessions. I ssh to the box they're running on and run screen -d -r foo to detach them if they're connected anywhere else, and then attach them in my current ...
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How can I get the GNU screen command to automatically start with every BusyBox ash session?

On an embedded device with BusyBox installed I want to set it up so that the gnu screen command is automatically started when any BusyBox session is started. I have seen that I can add the screen ...
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Detached screen on a remote host

I have a local script that runs a remote script via ssh. The local script is minecraft.php: ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -i {$this->pemkey} {$this->ssh_user} ...
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.ssh/config way to spectify pseudo-tty allocation and command execution (like screen)

Is there any way to specify, in .ssh/config, a command like: ssh -t remote-host "screen -dR screen_name" so I can easily access the remote screen session with ssh remote-host? Right now I solved ...
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Creating a backup script involving screens and java? [closed]

Hi guys I use centOS 64bit 5.7 and I need to create a backup script What I want it to do: screen -r example command into java pause for x amount of seconds exit screen zip/rar a folder which and ...
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Is it possible to detach a process started from one ssh session using another ssh session? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I disown it a running process and associate it to a new screen shell? I started a process from one ssh session to a target machine T. The system from which I ...
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Can mouse wheel scrolling work in a /usr/bin/screen session?

Is there any way to use the mouse wheel to scroll through the output of a screen session? I can use the keypad scroll through previous output in screen after pressing ctrl+a [. Is it possible to do ...
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How to prevent a program from dying when its ssh session dies?

I have a really old console application that I want to make a bit more resilient. The program is used this way: the user uses a custom terminal emulator to connect to a remote machine through ssh ...
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How do i execute a remote script with 'screens'?

I need to execute a script locally. The problem is, it needs to use screen and send the ctrl d command. How would i do this? The script will be on my local windows machine. i can use winscp, putty, ...
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How can I keep processes running on a remote server even after turning off the terminal machine?

..and then still be able to return to the same session/screen after restarting the terminal machine. I've tried screen but once I restarted my computer screen -d showed no sessions. Nohup seems to be ...
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Why is GNU screen / byobu leaving garbage text in the shell during a reverse search?

I recently starting using GNU screen via Byobu but I think the problem is related to screen. I first SSH into a server and then do a reverse search to run a commonly run command (dump a the ...
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Nested ssh session inside screen has no color

I am attempting to keep a nested ssh session inside of a byobu/screen window, which I also connect to over SSH with Putty on Windows. However the nested SSH session has no color. Here's what I'm ...
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How can I disown a running process and associate it to a new screen shell?

I have a running program on a SSH shell. I want to pause it and be able to unpause its execution when I come back. One way I thought of doing that was to transfer its ownership to a screen shell, ...
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Keep SSH Sessions running after disconnection

I sometimes have long running processes that I want to kick off before going home, so I create a SSH session to the server to start the process, but then I want to close my laptop and go home and ...