Re: Propagating environment variables ($STY and $WINDOW)

2008-05-24 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 05:23:25PM -0400, Ethan Mallove wrote: > Is there a way to get the $STY and $WINDOW environment variables to > propagate in an RSH/SSH session? E.g., if I start a Screen session, > $STY and $WINDOW go away once I have RSH/SSH'd to another machine. The SendEnv directive in .

Propagating environment variables ($STY and $WINDOW)

2008-05-24 Thread Ethan Mallove
Hello, Is there a way to get the $STY and $WINDOW environment variables to propagate in an RSH/SSH session? E.g., if I start a Screen session, $STY and $WINDOW go away once I have RSH/SSH'd to another machine. Thanks, Ethan ___ screen-users mailing l

Re: screen in single user mode - "cannot open /dev/console"

2008-05-24 Thread Malte Skoruppa
Usually runlevel 1 is the "single user mode" you spoke of (or whatever one likes to call it), and runlevel 3 is the typical mode with X (it depends on your distro, though). Anyway, I'd try to boot in runlevel 1, and from there, manually start every service that would normally automatically be

Re: screen in single user mode - "cannot open /dev/console"

2008-05-24 Thread soumen
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Geraint Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Davidorff Pell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said >(on Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:01:11PM -0700): > > Mac OS X is the only system that I know of that calls something "single > user mode". > > You look like you're

Re: screen in single user mode - "cannot open /dev/console"

2008-05-24 Thread Geraint Edwards
John Davidorff Pell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said (on Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:01:11PM -0700): > Mac OS X is the only system that I know of that calls something "single user > mode". You look like you're quoting from the Wikipedia entry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_user