On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 at 17:17 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote: > This > would be easy to do if it had a command line option to "Reattach if > possible, otherwise just start a new session" but it doesn't seem to. Did you try "screen --help"? Looks like -R is precisely what you want: drake at vinh505$ screen --help [...] -R Reattach if possible, otherwise start a new session. [...] > Also, you need to make sure when screen starts up a shell it doesn't > endlessly fork bomb itself, re-executing .profile/.bashrc every time... When I start shells in screen, they're not login shells. So as long as screen is started only from a login shell, you shouldn't have a problem. Adding a line to your .bash_login should do the trick. I've thought about automatically starting screen sessions, too. I'll try my own advice and see if I melt down one of the math department machines... Dan -- --- Dan Drake <drake at math.umn.edu> University of Minnesota ----- http://www.math.umn.edu/~drake School of Mathematics ------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20031011/5895f573/attachment.pgp