Try: screen -r 4951 *Jason Lindberg* Systems Engineer - UNIX/Linux (763) 355-2473 On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 4:41 PM, gregrwm <tclug1 at whitleymott.net> wrote: > i logged in while numerous fscks (several on same disc) (including /) were > running simultaneously (a mountall bug), ran ps|less (inside screen) to > capture the evidence, but lost that login before telling less to write it > out. i logged in again, but in the meantime the fscks finished. now, the > prior screen, which is still running, is not listed in /run/screen (i'm > guessing because it predated the initialization of /run), so even tho i > specify SCREEN -D -RR, i just get a new screen session, not the old one. > > how can i somehow either attach to the original screen which is still > running, or prod that running copy of less to write out it's buffer? > > i tried copying /run/screen/S-root/4951.pts-10.jocur (the more recent > screen session) to /run/screen/870.pts-13.jocur, also tried values of pts-0 > through pts-9 but none of them got me into screen. no doubt more than just > the name of that pipe is relevant. how might i craft the right pipe to get > me into that screen, or do you have a better idea? > > #00us#Dec06Fri16:20#Greg at jocur:/run/screen/S-root# pg SCR > 870 4951 > USER SESS TPGID PGRP PPID PID STARTED NI WCHAN STAT COMMAND > root 4951 -1 4951 4950 4951 16:20:06 0 poll_s Ss SCREEN -O > -d -RR -U -e^Bb > root 870 -1 870 1 870 13:38:51 0 poll_s Ss SCREEN -O > -d -RR -U -e^Bb > #00us#Dec06Fri16:20#Greg at jocur:/run/screen/S-root# l. > prwx------ 1 root greg 0 2013-12-06 Fri 16:20:06 4951.pts-10.jocur| > prwx------ 1 root greg 0 2013-12-06 Fri 16:00:32 870.pts-13.jocur| > #00us#Dec06Fri16:20#Greg at jocur:/run/screen/S-root# lt /dev/pts/* > c--------- 1 root root 5, 2 2013-12-06 Fri 13:37:34 /dev/pts/ptmx > crw--w---- 1 root tty 136, 6 2013-12-06 Fri 13:39:31 /dev/pts/6 > crw--w---- 1 root tty 136, 26 2013-12-06 Fri 13:39:36 /dev/pts/26 > crw------- 1 root tty 136, 3 2013-12-06 Fri 13:43:20 /dev/pts/3 > crw------- 1 root tty 136, 2 2013-12-06 Fri 13:46:08 /dev/pts/2 > crw------- 1 root tty 136, 7 2013-12-06 Fri 14:17:12 /dev/pts/7 > crw--w---- 1 g tty 136, 0 2013-12-06 Fri 15:41:20 /dev/pts/0 > crw--w---- 1 root tty 136, 13 2013-12-06 Fri 16:04:40 /dev/pts/13 > crw--w---- 1 g tty 136, 10 2013-12-06 Fri 16:20:16 /dev/pts/10 > crw------- 1 root tty 136, 5 2013-12-06 Fri 16:20:16 /dev/pts/5 > crw------- 1 root tty 136, 8 2013-12-06 Fri 16:20:16 /dev/pts/8 > crw--w---- 1 root tty 136, 1 2013-12-06 Fri 19:37:43 /dev/pts/1 > crw--w---- 1 root tty 136, 4 2013-12-06 Fri 19:37:44 /dev/pts/4 > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20131206/d81c96f5/attachment-0001.html>