recover ssh session

petersk · 02-09-2007, 04:33 PM

I sometimes run ssh -Y (or -X) from school wirelessly to my home machine, and lose the connection. Once I get home when I run ps aux, I can see the "session" is still alive. I'd love to be able to reconnect to it now that I'm home and continue my work. I tried "jobs" and nothing shows up (so that I could possibly try "fg jobspec").

Does anyone know how I could reconnect to the same ssh session that was cut off?
Regards,
Kurt

jxi · 02-10-2007, 08:00 AM

see docs for "screen"

a soon as you're connected thru ssh, start screen. You can open multiple screens with `Control+A c` (and this can be customized if you don't want to change your emacs style key bindings).

When you lose the connection, screen keeps everything the way you last saw it. In your example you would come home and type `screen -R` to restore.

I don't usually start gui apps from within a screen session, though there may be a way to do it.

HTH

Brian1 · 02-10-2007, 06:45 PM

Check out the bottom from this site. It might work for you.
http://www.suso.org/docs/shell/ssh.sdf

Brian