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Operating Systems Linux Is it possible to set timeout on Linux screen session Post 303011017 by prvnrk on Thursday 11th of January 2018 08:39:16 PM

01-11-2018

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Hi Corona688, it's actually NOT working. Even though we're able to kill the bash (shell) but the screen session socket still exists (that's the whole point of having a session - not to lose session if there's disconnection to the server etc.). Just login into the server and running "screen -r" still restores my session and one can see what is going on the session.

So I changed your script as below and now its working fine ( basically I'm killing the screen session)

Code:

( sleep 120 && screen -S scr1 -X quit ) & # Kill screen session in 2 minutes
exec screen -S scr1 # Establish a screen session

Luckily screen offers us to name every session so you can use that name (instead of PID which is a random number) to kill/attach/detach. Now It's working as expected. Thanks for all the help!

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SCREEN-IR(1)							   Axel Beckert 						      SCREEN-IR(1)

NAME

       screen-ir -- Interactively Reattach to GNU Screen sessions

SYNOPSIS

       screen-ir [additional screen options ...]

DESCRIPTION

       screen-ir uses iSelect(1) to interactively reattach to running screen sessions.

       Use the screen option -d or -D if you want to reattach to attached screen sessions.

       Use the screen option -x if you want to attach to screen sessions without detaching them.

FILES

       screen-ir sources ~/.screen-irrc if it exists. It recognizes two variables:

       The contents of SCREEN_OPTIONS is given to screen(1) as command-line options. Default is -r. Use e.g. -rd if you always want to reattach to
       already attached screen sessions.

       The contents of ISELECT_OPTIONS is given to iselect(1) as command-line options. Default is empty. Use e.g. -f if you always want to see the
       interactive selection, even if there's only one screen session running, i.e. you have no choice.

AUTHOR

       Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>

SEE ALSO

       screen(1), iselect(1)

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