This answer doesn’t solve the problem, but it’s left here because 30+ people found it useful, otherwise I would have deleted it long time ago. Write to /proc/*pid of the program*/fd/0. The fd subdirectory contains the descriptors of all the opened files and file descriptor 0 is the standard input (1 is stdout and 2 … Read more
You could try Ctrl–a : source ~/.screenrc.
You can look at the $STY variable (a variable set by the screen command). If it is not “” then you are in a screen session. I am in screen $ echo $STY 29624.pts-1.iain-10-04 $ I am not in screen $ echo $STY $
You can renumber the current window with ctrl+a :number x where x is a numeric argument. You can rename the current window with ctrl+a A
You can press ctrl-z to interrupt the process and then run bg to make it run in the background. You can show a numbered list all processes backgrounded in this manner with jobs. Then you can run disown %1 (replace 1 with the process number output by jobs) to detach the process from the terminal. … Read more
Try running script /dev/null as the user you su to before launching screen – its a ghetto little hack, but it should make screen happy.
UPDATE: For an actual answer see zero_r’s answer below This isn’t an answer, but a workaround. Use screen. When you first log in, run screen. You get another shell, run commands in that. If you’re disconnected, the screen process keeps the terminal alive so that your shell and the processes it is running don’t fall … Read more
Have a look at reptyr, which does exactly that. The github page has all the information. reptyr – A tool for “re-ptying” programs. reptyr is a utility for taking an existing running program and attaching it to a new terminal. Started a long-running process over ssh, but have to leave and don’t want to interrupt … Read more
If you’re using Bash, you can run disown -h job disown disown [-ar] [-h] [jobspec …] Without options, each jobspec is removed from the table of active jobs. If the -h option is given, the job is not removed from the table, but is marked so that SIGHUP is not sent to the job if … Read more
Look. This is way old, but on the off chance that someone from Google finds this, absolutely the best solution to this – (and it is AWESOME) – is to use ConEmu (or a package that includes and is built on top of ConEmu called cmder) and then either use plink or putty itself to connect to a specific machine, … Read more