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twobit
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 11:14 pm    Post subject: viewing session on remote server Reply with quote

cant seem to find the info i'm looking for. i have a remote gentoo server and i want to take control of the session that is currently displayed on the server locally. how do i do this? do i need to start the program i'm trying to control remotely in the background?

someone link or explain how this is done?
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 11:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

twobit,

There are several ways. If the server has a GUI and the program is already running, you need to set up VNC in its screenscraper mode, so it can show you the remote GUI.
SECURITY WARNING: VNC is not secure. Tunnel it over ssh or something like that.

If you don't have a GUI, install screen on the server and run the program in screen.
You can now connect remotely and pick up the screen session. The program will not exit when you disconnect from screen.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 12:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i was meaning in a console session .. over ssh... there is no Gui installed
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 12:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

app-misc/screen
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 12:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

twobit,

If you start screen session (app-misc/screen) on the server you can attach to it from an ssh session :wink:
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 2:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you're in text mode right now there's not really many options that I know of... Is it in a framebuffer mode or raw text mode?

Technically there are ioctls that you can use to send characters into the console stdin but no real clean program to do this... hmm... might be a project to do this for fun...

If you're in X11, there's options available... specifically x11vnc.

If this is a virtual machine, then there also could be options there too...
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 3:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks for the help all! screen seems to be doing the job
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