I have a long-running daemon process that I start with screen so that I can occasionally connect to and converse with it. However, I'd also occasionally like to converse with the server process via shell scripts. I'd like to do something like this:
echo "some commands" | screen -r my_server_process That is, I want screen to connect and then allow the text "some commands" to tumble down the server process's stdin exactly as if I'd typed it with my fingers. Then screen should disconnect and leave the server process be. I don't care what happens to stdout---it can be connected to /dev/null. However, I would like the input and output to show up in the log file. I realize that screen expects to have an interactive user at one end of its connection, and therefore I'm in some sense misusing the program. I'm accustomed to using detachtty (http://www.cliki.net/detachtty) for this, which does allow the above use case. However, I've had trouble getting detachtty to work on OS X 10.4 or 10.5 on PPC machines. Thanks for any suggestions, Greg _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
