Re: I need a screen saver

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From: A. Pagaltzis
Subject: Re: I need a screen saver
Date: 16:21 on 15 Jan 2007
* Yossi Kreinin <yossi.kreinin@xxxxxxxx.xxx> [2007-01-15 11:15]:
> I would appreciate any advice regarding the management of
> screen sessions since that's my primary defense mechanism
> against the crashes of my desktop. In particular, I wonder how
> to tell a dead screen from a living one.

Generally it works just fine. I never had an issue with screen,
in any case, and not with the `-wipe` switch either.

The way to tell dead sockets from the living, I believe, is to
open the socket and see if anyone's listening.

Which brings me to:

> Silly of me to beleive screen which told me I had "dead" screen
> sessions and suggested to run `screen -wipe`, which put a
> living session into a coma.

Is it conceivable that...

a) those screen sessions were running on a different machine?
   (Home directory mounter over NFS f.ex.?) Sockets created by
   screens on machine A would, obviously, appear dead when
   invoking screen on machine B.

b) the other screen session that's running put its sockets in a
   different place and the one you just invoked is actually
   looking at dead sockets?

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>;
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