i logged in while numerous fscks (several on same disc) (including /) were running simultaneously (a mountall bug), ran ps|less (inside screen) to capture the evidence, but lost that login before telling less to write it out. i logged in again, but in the meantime the fscks finished. now, the prior screen, which is still running, is not listed in /run/screen (i'm guessing because it predated the initialization of /run), so even tho i specify SCREEN -D -RR, i just get a new screen session, not the old one. how can i somehow either attach to the original screen which is still running, or prod that running copy of less to write out it's buffer? i tried copying /run/screen/S-root/4951.pts-10.jocur (the more recent screen session) to /run/screen/870.pts-13.jocur, also tried values of pts-0 through pts-9 but none of them got me into screen. no doubt more than just the name of that pipe is relevant. how might i craft the right pipe to get me into that screen, or do you have a better idea? #00us#Dec06Fri16:20#Greg at jocur:/run/screen/S-root# pg SCR 870 4951 USER SESS TPGID PGRP PPID PID STARTED NI WCHAN STAT COMMAND root 4951 -1 4951 4950 4951 16:20:06 0 poll_s Ss SCREEN -O -d -RR -U -e^Bb root 870 -1 870 1 870 13:38:51 0 poll_s Ss SCREEN -O -d -RR -U -e^Bb #00us#Dec06Fri16:20#Greg at jocur:/run/screen/S-root# l. prwx------ 1 root greg 0 2013-12-06 Fri 16:20:06 4951.pts-10.jocur| prwx------ 1 root greg 0 2013-12-06 Fri 16:00:32 870.pts-13.jocur| #00us#Dec06Fri16:20#Greg at jocur:/run/screen/S-root# lt /dev/pts/* c--------- 1 root root 5, 2 2013-12-06 Fri 13:37:34 /dev/pts/ptmx crw--w---- 1 root tty 136, 6 2013-12-06 Fri 13:39:31 /dev/pts/6 crw--w---- 1 root tty 136, 26 2013-12-06 Fri 13:39:36 /dev/pts/26 crw------- 1 root tty 136, 3 2013-12-06 Fri 13:43:20 /dev/pts/3 crw------- 1 root tty 136, 2 2013-12-06 Fri 13:46:08 /dev/pts/2 crw------- 1 root tty 136, 7 2013-12-06 Fri 14:17:12 /dev/pts/7 crw--w---- 1 g tty 136, 0 2013-12-06 Fri 15:41:20 /dev/pts/0 crw--w---- 1 root tty 136, 13 2013-12-06 Fri 16:04:40 /dev/pts/13 crw--w---- 1 g tty 136, 10 2013-12-06 Fri 16:20:16 /dev/pts/10 crw------- 1 root tty 136, 5 2013-12-06 Fri 16:20:16 /dev/pts/5 crw------- 1 root tty 136, 8 2013-12-06 Fri 16:20:16 /dev/pts/8 crw--w---- 1 root tty 136, 1 2013-12-06 Fri 19:37:43 /dev/pts/1 crw--w---- 1 root tty 136, 4 2013-12-06 Fri 19:37:44 /dev/pts/4 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20131206/84ad0564/attachment.html>