Hi Everyone!
I was hoping you might know about this problem I've been having with
'screen' in the last while. I've done a lot to try and solve it, and looked
all over the internet and this mailing list, but I can't seem to find the
solution.
I'm starting several screen sessions on startup of a server using named
screens ("screen -S"). These sessions each run a game server.
I can connect to the screen using a running terminal session with "screen
-x" as usual. I also made a front-end where admins can quickly check the
status of a running screen session, which uses the 'hardcopy' function to
make a screen shot, which is then displayed on the web page. This works well
if I ever used "screen -x" before to connect to that particular screen
session.
However, if I have never used screen -x manually since bootup, the
screendump is always empty (0 bytes). I assumed this was because it doesn't
know the terminal type or something but I have tried specifying this
manually in the shell .bashrc and I have tried sending a 'redisplay' and
'height 24 80' command to screen before doing the hardcopy. I have even
tried to associate a process running 'screen -x' with one of the virtual
terminals on the console at startup. But none of this worked, the only way
to get a functioning screendump using hardcopy seems to be to run a session
of 'screen -x' and then quit it. After that it works brilliantly till the
next reboot.
I was just wondering if someone else has the same problem and more
importantly if you know how to fix it :) It would be great to have this
working so I don't have to give each admin SSH access to our game server.
Regards,
Tycho Schenkeveld (GekkePrutser)
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