I'm trying to write a script to start a screen session with multiple telnet windows to a terminal server. The name of the terminal server varies, as does the number of windows, so this isn't something I can do by just adding some lines to my .screenrc.
I tried creating a screen session and then repeatedly sending it commands using -X as follows screen -S screen_cons -X screen -t node$i $i telnet $tsv 20$i where $i is the terminal server port number and $tsv is the terminal server hostname. Unfortunately, the screen -X commands silently fail. If I remove the trailing telnet clause, the windows are created (without the telnet commands, of course). I also tried synthesizing a .screenrc file, which I stored in a temp file and supplied to screen using the "-c" command. That worked OK, save for the fact that screen seems to want to have the .screenrc file present when reconnecting to the session. This prevents me from deleting the temp file in the script and I'd really like to avoid having lots of old screenrc temp files lying around. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to solve this problem? Thanks, Sam _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
