#MULTIPLE SSH SESSIONS PUTTY INSTALL#

You can't use your scroll bar in Screen you have to use buffer controls to roll back, however the above is enough to get you started to see if this is a viable option. There are a whole slew of options available for Screen you should pour over the man file for more. Lastly to list all windows open you can type Ctrl + A then '. Finally you can close tabs by using Ctrl + A then k which will kill that tab (if it locks up) but typically you can just type exit as if you were in a terminal and it will close that tab. If you want to exit screen but keep it running use Ctrl + A then d which will detach your session.

You can open a maximum of 60 tabs per screen session. You'll notice the footer has (LOAD) 0-$ bash 1$* bash which shows that there is another tab open and the active tab is number 1. All commands are started with this combination. Type something then Press this Key Combination: Ctrl + A release, then press c. Which is the servers load and a list of all open 'terminal tabs'. screenrc file) You'll see the following along the bottom:

Once you're in a Screen (and you've employed my sample. Screen -x - This will resume a Detached screen session, IE: screen -x 16467 Yes you can have multiple terminals inside multiple screens. Screen -ls - List all active screen sessions.

#MULTIPLE SSH SESSIONS PUTTY INSTALL#

Next install screen on the remote machine ( sudo apt-get install screen) Next you'll want to fire it up here are some commands for 'firing up screen':

screenrc save it on the remote server in your users home folder. You've got a lot of learning of commands to setup a successful Screen environment. GNU Screen is the answer you've been looking for - but it's a lot like Vi.

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