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Re: screen doesn't work.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Chalef)
Sun Nov 3 03:20:00 1996
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 10:18:01 +0200 (SAT)
From: Daniel Chalef <danielc@iafrica.com>
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> > I can't get screen to work for root or any user unless I invoke
> > 'screen -a'. This applies to both the 3.7.1-1 and 3.7.1-2 RPMs.
>
> This has also happened with me. I have tried various shells, various
> users, xterms and console, different users. Same thing happens everytime.
> Screen starts but never gives the spash screen. The cursor just returns on
> the next line. SCREEN shows in the process list, so something is running
> but there it never starts a shell and doesn't listen to any of it ^A
> commands.
Works for me in an xterm or nxterm, but not on a VC or ptty.... Not sure
why... Originally I thought ssh was not writing entries into wtmp, so
screen refused to start, but I proved myself wrong, as VC startup didn't
work. ):
Cheers
Daniel
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