Screen : The screen session creaeted by ssh and local console seems separated

Dr Bean drbean@freeshell.org
Tue Aug 5 23:07:32 GMT 2025


On Tue, 05 Aug 2025, L 2750558108 via Cygwin wrote:

> Cygwin 2.934
> Screen 5.0.1-2

> I created a session with "screen -S name" using the local console, but when I connected to this machine via ssh and tried to resume the session via "screen -r name", the command execution ended immediately and I didn't see any output.
> I later found out that the same thing happens when a session created via an SSH connection is resumed in the local terminal. Sometimes, terminal freezes will take in place of non-output command end.
> I search on the Internet with GNU Screen key word but dont see any related information, so I guess this might related to the cygwin environment

Are you using Microsoft's ssh or cygwin's?

What you are doing, switching between screen sessions 
started from different machines, works with cygwin's.

I can't find where this was fixed and discussed in the list 
archives in the last couple of years.

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