On Sep 8, 2012 4:25 PM, "Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullrich@loop.de> wrote:
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> Hi folks,
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> I know, maybe this is not the right forum, as my question is not really debian based. But maybe you might want to help either.
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> I have a friend far away from me, which is using debian/testing same as me. As I am helping this woman sometimes, and she is willing to learn, I would give her an option, to see, what I am doing in the shell (input, output and error).
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> She is also capable working in the shell (but still not very experienced with it), and so I am looking for a way, that
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> - either she can see, what I am doing in my shell
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> - I can see her shell
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> - or best, we can both work in ONE shell
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> IMO it is a good way for her, to learn, what is going on.
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> I know, that the first was possible in the past, but I cannot remember any more how I did it, it was something with redirecting, Of course I read the manuals, and searched the web, but I still did not find the best solution, yet.
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> Any hints are welcome.
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> Thanks for your help!
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> Best regards
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> Hans
Hi
You can get connected to the same console and interact at the same time using the byoubu package.
Hope it helps
Best regards
09-08-2012, 03:03 PM
Lars Noodén
How to redirect input/output to another console?
On 9/8/12 4:58 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
[snip]
> ... and so I am looking for a way, that
> - either she can see, what I am doing in my shell
> - I can see her shell
> - or best, we can both work in ONE shell
[snip]
You should be able to share a shell using screen and maybe tmux.
A) It's very easy if you are both logged in as the same user. In one
terminal, where foobar is the name of your screen session:
screen -S foobar
In the other terminal, attach to that session:
screen -x foobar
B) If you are logged in as two different users, then you have to use
acls and screen must be set suid. I don't know about the safety of
that. In the first user's terminal, start screen as above, where foobar
is the name of the screen session and user2 is the second account to be
sharing the session:
screen -S foobar
^A:multiuser on
^A:acladd user2
Then in the other terminal, attach to the first user's session
screen -x user1/foobar
I think something similar should be possible with tmux, but I haven't tried.
Regards,
/Lars
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09-08-2012, 03:56 PM
Dom
How to redirect input/output to another console?
On 08/09/12 14:58, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
Hi folks,
I know, maybe this is not the right forum, as my question is not really debian
based. But maybe you might want to help either.
I have a friend far away from me, which is using debian/testing same as me. As
I am helping this woman sometimes, and she is willing to learn, I would give
her an option, to see, what I am doing in the shell (input, output and error).
She is also capable working in the shell (but still not very experienced with
it), and so I am looking for a way, that
- either she can see, what I am doing in my shell
- I can see her shell
- or best, we can both work in ONE shell
IMO it is a good way for her, to learn, what is going on.
I know, that the first was possible in the past, but I cannot remember any more
how I did it, it was something with redirecting, Of course I read the manuals,
and searched the web, but I still did not find the best solution, yet.
Any hints are welcome.
I'd use screen. Get your friend to start a screen session with
screen -U -a -S myscreen
then log in to her machine and connect to the same session with
screen -U -a -x myscreen
for this.
The -U (use UTF-8) and -a (use full terminal capabilities) are optional.
It's low bandwidth and you'll be sharing the same shell session. Screen
also has the advantage that if you get disconnected, you can reconnect
to the same session again.
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With the byobu package you can do the same as stated by Lars or Dom as
it is based on GNU Screen
byobu - powerful, text based window manager and shell multiplexer
Another option you have for share read-only your session or kept logs
of your sessions is the script tool (from bsdutils package)
In your session (the one you want to share as read-only) type: script -f
This will save in the current path all you screen movement (your
commands and its results) in a file called typescript
In the other user session only is needed to tail -f typescript
This session will see all the changes in the original session in real
time. Like a text based VNC read-only session.
Best regards
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09-09-2012, 07:33 AM
Andrei POPESCU
How to redirect input/output to another console?
On Sb, 08 sep 12, 20:10:26, Juan Sierra Pons wrote:
> Hi again,
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> With the byobu package you can do the same as stated by Lars or Dom as
> it is based on GNU Screen
>
> byobu - powerful, text based window manager and shell multiplexer
Further from the description:
Byobu is Ubuntu's text-based window manager based on GNU Screen.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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09-10-2012, 08:43 AM
Lars Noodén
How to redirect input/output to another console?
On 9/8/12 4:58 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
[snip]
> She is also capable working in the shell (but still not very experienced with
> it), and so I am looking for a way, that
> - either she can see, what I am doing in my shell
> - I can see her shell
> - or best, we can both work in ONE shell
[snip]
How did it go for you?
As a follow-up, here are the ways to do it with tmux, since it does not
need SUID.
A) If the same account is going to be sharing the session, then it's
rather easy. In the first terminal, start tmux where 'shared' is the
session name:
tmux new-session -s shared
Then in the second terminal:
tmux attach-session -t shared
B) For different users, you have to set the permissions on the tmux
socket so that both users can read and write it.
In the first terminal, start tmux where 'shared' is the session name and
'shareds' is the name of the socket:
tmux -S /tmp/shareds new -s shared
Then chgrp the socket (/tmp/shareds) to a group that both users share in
common.
In the second terminal attach using that socket and session
tmux -S /tmp/shareds attach -t shared
Regards,
/Lars
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09-11-2012, 09:27 PM
Alex Robbins
How to redirect input/output to another console?
On 09/08/2012 08:58 AM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
I am looking for a way, that
- either she can see, what I am doing in my shell
- I can see her shell
- or best, we can both work in ONE shell
Some have mentioned using VNC. If all you want to do is share a shell, then
this is probably not the best solution. It is designed for use with GUIs,
so while you could share the terminal window (the actual graphical window
of your "Terminal" or "Konsole" or whatever), it would be inefficient and
possibly quite slow.
Others have mentioned GNU Screen. This is generally better than VNC for
your purposes, but has a few (potential) flaws. First of all, it has not
had a release in 4 years, and does not appear to be actively developed.
It has several bugs and missing features, especially when it comes to
sharing
a session.
That said, I started with screen and then switched to tmux, which is an
actively developed rewrite of screen (and is BSD licensed). It has many
technical and objective improvements over screen, and, additionally, it
has proven a much better alternative in my personal experience. It does
very well with sharing a terminal from multiple clients of different sizes,
dynamically resizing as conditions change. (I use the version from testing,
but tmux is also available in the squeeze repo.)
There is plenty of information on the web concerning tmux and it's use.
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> That said, I started with screen and then switched to tmux, which is an
> actively developed rewrite of screen (and is BSD licensed). It has many
> technical and objective improvements over screen, and, additionally, it
> has proven a much better alternative in my personal experience.
Cool, thanks I've been using screen and now I'm trying tmux, which
looks very promising --- I've never heard about it before.
There has been an updated package of screen in testing a few weeks
ago. Its version seems to have changed with that, so perhaps development
of screen hasn't stopped.
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Alex Robbins
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On 09/11/2012 06:02 PM, lee wrote:
Alex Robbins<alexdotrobbins@gmail.com> writes:
That said, I started with screen and then switched to tmux, which is an
actively developed rewrite of screen (and is BSD licensed). It has many
technical and objective improvements over screen, and, additionally, it
has proven a much better alternative in my personal experience.
Cool, thanks I've been using screen and now I'm trying tmux, which
looks very promising --- I've never heard about it before.
There has been an updated package of screen in testing a few weeks
ago. Its version seems to have changed with that, so perhaps development
of screen hasn't stopped.
I think development has stopped -- upstream. Some people (presumably
the Debian people) have been developing patches. I imagine that some of
these patches are for security fixes; I know that some are added features.
Either way, I think screen is still considered "deprecated" in favor of
tmux.
Whatever works for you, I suppose, but in my personal experience, tmux has
been much better (It is also highly customizable. I had to play with it
for a bit to make it function more like screen, and if you don't like the
status bar thing, you can get rid of it.)
Alex Robbins
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Which would be a pity, it's really good software ...
> Whatever works for you, I suppose, but in my personal experience, tmux has
> been much better (It is also highly customizable. I had to play with it
> for a bit to make it function more like screen, and if you don't like the
> status bar thing, you can get rid of it.)
Hard to say, I've only just started using it, slowly learning the keys.
So far, it works fine and seems to have some nice features screen
doesn't have. If it keeps working, I'll stay with it.
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