[9fans] detached/persistent sessions

[9fans] detached/persistent sessions

[Claudio Leite]

Hello,

I recently set up a P9 cpu server on a Xen "colocation" service. My only wish at this point is to be able to drawterm into the server and leave my session running after I disconnect. Does any such feature currently exist?

If not, my understanding is it wouldn't be too terribly difficult to create some sort of middleman between the drawterm video/keyboard/mouse devices and rio that pretends to be connected while a session is detached a la GNU screen. Or, is there a good reason why this hasn't been done yet that I'm not aware of?


thanks.
-Claudio

Re: [9fans] detached/persistent sessions

[roger peppe]

> If not, my understanding is it wouldn't be too terribly difficult to create some sort of middleman between
> the drawterm video/keyboard/mouse devices and rio that pretends to be connected while a
> session is detached a la GNU screen. Or, is there a good reason why this hasn't been done yet
> that I'm not aware of?

indeed it shouldn't be too hard, and something similar's been done in
inferno, but i don't know about plan 9.

Re: [9fans] detached/persistent sessions

[Skip Tavakkolian]

> I recently set up a P9 cpu server on a Xen "colocation" service. My only wish at this point is to be able to drawterm into the server and leave my session running after I disconnect. Does any such feature currently exist?
> 
> If not, my understanding is it wouldn't be too terribly difficult to create some sort of middleman between the drawterm video/keyboard/mouse devices and rio that pretends to be connected while a session is detached a la GNU screen. Or, is there a good reason why this hasn't been done yet that I'm not aware of?

check out Recover:
http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/iwp9/cready/recover.pdf
/n/sources/contrib/paurea/recover4e.tgz

back in 2003/2004, brucee added support for aan(8) to an experimental
version of dt2k and wrote an fs (aanfs) for the plan9 side of the
connection.  it is handy for intermittent outages in a wifi network
but obviously not for session migration, etc.  if this is what you
want i'll put them on sources.  you'll have to port them to the
lastest drawterm.

Re: [9fans] detached/persistent sessions

[don bailey]

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Didn't Forsythe write an implementation of Rocks?

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Re: [9fans] detached/persistent sessions

[Charles Forsyth]

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i don't think so.

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From: don bailey <don.bailey@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] detached/persistent sessions
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 13:17:28 -0700
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Didn't Forsythe write an implementation of Rocks?

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Re: [9fans] detached/persistent sessions

[erik quanstrom]

On Sat Nov 24 11:01:09 EST 2007, leitec@kelton.leitec.org wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I recently set up a P9 cpu server on a Xen "colocation" service. My only wish at this point is to be able to drawterm into the server and leave my session running after I disconnect. Does any such feature currently exist?
> 
> If not, my understanding is it wouldn't be too terribly difficult to create some sort of middleman between the drawterm video/keyboard/mouse devices and rio that pretends to be connected while a session is detached a la GNU screen. Or, is there a good reason why this hasn't been done yet that I'm not aware of?

to my knowledge, there is no such software.  acme allows one to
save editing sessions with the Dump command.  rio allows one to
start the same set of windows when you login in with the -i flag.

- erik

Re: [9fans] detached/persistent sessions

[Wes Kussmaul]

That was the other guy, the one with the 'e'. He also wrote a saga.

Charles Forsyth wrote:
> i don't think so.
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> Re: [9fans] detached/persistent sessions
> From:
> don bailey <don.bailey@gmail.com>
> Date:
> Sat, 24 Nov 2007 13:17:28 -0700
> To:
> Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
> 
> To:
> Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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> D
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Re: [9fans] detached/persistent sessions

[Claudio Leite]

> check out Recover:
> http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/iwp9/cready/recover.pdf
> /n/sources/contrib/paurea/recover4e.tgz
> 
> back in 2003/2004, brucee added support for aan(8) to an experimental
> version of dt2k and wrote an fs (aanfs) for the plan9 side of the
> connection.  it is handy for intermittent outages in a wifi network
> but obviously not for session migration, etc.  if this is what you
> want i'll put them on sources.  you'll have to port them to the
> lastest drawterm.

This is definitely on the right track. Outages are one reason I'd like this feature, but really I suppose I'm more interested in being able to switch from, say, my laptop to my desktop at will without having to restart my programs. If you could post those sources I might be interested in updating them.

acme dumps and rio -i help for sure (already using those), but (I think) it'd be handy to have something where I can disconnect without interrupting, say, a long-running process or otherwise having to restart.

thanks.

Re: [9fans] detached/persistent sessions

[Federico G. Benavento]

> acme dumps and rio -i help for sure (already using those), but (I think) it'd be handy to have something where I can disconnect without interrupting, say, a long-running process or otherwise having to restart.

I already said this in IRC, but for the ones that aren't
there, for long running process you can:

% cmd <[0=1] | echo 0 > /srv/name &

then:

% con -l /srv/name



Federico G. Benavento

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