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I was connected to my linux box via PUTTY, when all of a sudden I lost my internet connection. When I logged back into my system, I ran "w" and saw that my other terminal session was still active.
login as: ikesys
ikesys@host's password:
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-bash-2.05b$ w
16:01:46 up 24 days, 10:08, 2 users, load average: 0.75, 0.62, 0.37
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
ikesys pts/0 cpe-67-10-228-14 4:01pm 0.00s 0.04s 0.01s w
ikesys pts/1 cpe-67-10-228-14 Tue 7pm 2:07m 1.02s 0.05s /usr/sbin/sshd
-bash-2.05b$
I know when I am physically working on a linux machine I can use F-something (<Ctrl><Alt><F1>?) to switch between terminals. Is there an equivalent when working with Putty/SSH? I really need to get into TTY session pts/0 to access my work... When I press <Ctrl><Alt><F1> I just get a "~" (or F2 = [12~) on my shell...
Thanks!
If you had a text editor open, the editor will usually save your changes into a backup file when it's killed.
Quick guide:
"screen" to start a session
Ctrl-A Ctrl-D to put the session into the background
"screen -r" to resume the last session
"screen -ls" to show what sessions are running
It works like this: connect to your server; execute "screen"; start something like "top"; forcibly kill the server connection (e.g. by closing the Putty window), login again, issue "screen -r" and you get your running "top" back.
Thanks!
