[Question ] Seeing TTY2 screen from SSH

[alloy]

Hi everyone,

I am a newbie. Installed FedoraC6 and using it. I was wonder how do I see the output from TTY2 from a SSH session. Normally I ALT-F2 to get to it. Also I remember seeing a command which allow an application to be separated from the screen and able to call it back from command line. I need to do it all under ssh command line.

Could anyone point me to the right direction to achieving this.

Thanks for viewing.

[redhead]

I was wonder how do I see the output from TTY2 from a SSH session.

You can't, when you connect through ssh, you create one single display connection, usualy a pts/N connection, through which you can't pipe output from the terminal.
What you see on your screen is a display connection on the local machine, this is called through a vtN connection, this is created through getty, which is also responsible of creating TTYN, so here it is possible to pipe the output from another TTY to your current TTY.

Also I remember seeing a command which allow an application to be separated from the screen and able to call it back from command line.

It's convinient called screen

[alloy]

Thanks RedHead,

erm ... the task i trying to accomplish is to launch a application and leave it running but when i login remotely i could see the result/output.

Thanks for the screen command.

[redhead]

Sure, just execute the command as:
# screen -D -m command
And when you want to see the output, login and run:
# screen -r

For more info on screen check my last thread explaining how to use it in scripts.