<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>Doug,</div><div>Thanks for the suggestions. When you have putty windows open and the computer loses power or the gateway connections drops, then those processes still exist on the computer you were connected to. If you had opened Screen from the Bash shells in the ssh connections, you would be able to reconnect and reattach those screens as though the connection were never lost. Or of course you could use ps -u root and close those processes down and/or possibly reboot. Screen is also useful for collaboration with another person by sharing the named screen terminal. </div><div><br></div><div>You are right, what have I got to lose except some writes to a spare SanDisk card.</div><div>73,</div><div>Ron Morell</div><div>KA7U</div><div><br></div>
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Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] How to install Screen<br>
From: Doug Crompton <<a href="mailto:doug@crompton.com">doug@crompton.com</a>><br>
Date: Sat, December 26, 2015 12:47 pm<br>
To: ARM Allstar <<a href="mailto:arm-allstar@hamvoip.org">arm-allstar@hamvoip.org</a>><br>
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</style> <div dir="ltr"><font style="" color="#000000" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">Ron,<br><br> What often happens when trying to load new packages is that the base packages are not up to date. Doing a complete update can break things and would require a dahdi recompile.<br><br>In lieu of screen you know you can open as many windows as you want in putty or winscp on a remote system. I generally have 6 or more putty windows open, to different or the same servers.<br><br>However if you do want to play I would suggest making a backup of your image to another SD card. One you can boot up and play with and if you break something it is no big deal. You can't hurt anything.<br><br>On the backup card when you download a package and it gives you an error try - pacman -Sy <package-name><br>This should work but in some rare occasions could break things.<br><br>If you get it working and everything seems to work you can just use that image. You always have a backup (your original) to use if a problem arises. <br id="FontBreak"></font><br><b><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">73 Doug</font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">WA3DSP</font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><a href="http://www.crompton.com/hamradio">http://www.crompton.com/hamradio</a></font></b><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br></font><br><br><div>> From: <a href="mailto:ron@morell.us">ron@morell.us</a><br>> To: <a href="mailto:arm-allstar@hamvoip.org">arm-allstar@hamvoip.org</a><br>> Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 11:03:34 -0700<br>> Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] How to install Screen<br>> <br>> Operating impulsively here... <br>> <br>> I found this:<br>> <a href="http://lists.hamvoip.org/pipermail/arm-allstar/2014-June/000078.html">http://lists.hamvoip.org/pipermail/arm-allstar/2014-June/000078.html</a><br>> And so updated my /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist so pacman might install. But,<br>> gee, Screen needs <a href="http://libncursesw.so">libncursesw.so</a>.6 and I'm pretty certain I need to<br>> install ncurses to get that file. That might be a deal breaker for<br>> AllStar. <br>> <br>> I'm going to stop my pursuit of Screen until I get advice from competent<br>> help. Hi Hi<br>> 73<br>> Ron Morell<br>> KA7U<br>> <br>> <br>> -------- Original Message --------<br>> Subject: How to install Screen<br>> From: <<a href="mailto:ron@morell.us">ron@morell.us</a>><br>> Date: Sat, December 26, 2015 10:51 am<br>> To: <a href="mailto:arm-allstar@hamvoip.org">arm-allstar@hamvoip.org</a><br>> <br>> I would like to use screen on the AllStar node. This is the result when<br>> I try to install it from packages.<br>> <br>> [root@allstar-ka7u ~]# pacman -S screen<br>> resolving dependencies...<br>> looking for conflicting packages...<br>> <br>> Packages (1) screen-4.2.1-3<br>> <br>> Total Download Size: 0.45 MiB<br>> Total Installed Size: 0.80 MiB<br>> <br>> :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y<br>> :: Retrieving packages ...<br>> error: failed retrieving file 'screen-4.2.1-3-armv7h.pkg.tar.xz' from<br>> <a href="http://mirror.archlinuxarm.org">mirror.archlinuxarm.org</a> : The requested URL returned error: 404<br>> warning: failed to retrieve some files<br>> error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error)<br>> Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.<br>> [root@allstar-ka7u ~]# <br>> <br>> I find the Screen rpm here:<br>> <a href="http://fraggod.net/static/mirror/packages/archlinuxarm/armv7h">http://fraggod.net/static/mirror/packages/archlinuxarm/armv7h</a>/<br>> But don't know if I should do it...<br>> <br>> I'm not sure if dependencies will break the AllStar node and so don't<br>> want to force the issue. But if there is a proper way to install Screen<br>> without upsetting the balance of files for AllStar, I would be<br>> interested in hearing about it.<br>> Ron Morell<br>> KA7U<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> <br>> arm-allstar mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:arm-allstar@hamvoip.org">arm-allstar@hamvoip.org</a><br>> <a href="http://lists.hamvoip.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arm-allstar">http://lists.hamvoip.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arm-allstar</a><br>> <br>> Visit the BBB and RPi2 web page - <a href="http://hamvoip.org">http://hamvoip.org</a><br>> <br></div> </div> <hr>_______________________________________________<br>
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