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Old 10-23-2007, 07:57 PM   #1
PrestonCR
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root at pts/1 and Putty


Alright im havin one heck of a time with reconnecting to a previous session. I putty'ed into one of my edge switches and was running it in the background that was running a syncdb prohram on a linux box. It says that my session is still open but i have no idea of how to reconnect to the existing session it tellms me its on root at pts/1 and i think i need to get to root at pts/2 i need some serious help.
 
Old 10-24-2007, 12:57 PM   #2
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Is this session already closed? And why would you want to reconnect to the same session?
 
Old 10-26-2007, 10:24 PM   #3
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no it is still running and it has pertanent info running on it
 
Old 10-26-2007, 10:42 PM   #4
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Once your logged in does "screen -r <program>" work?
 
  


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