[clug] tty -> SSH

[paul at pabryan.mine.nu]

On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 06:25:51PM +1000, Joel Plane wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to use an SSH vty connection to view whats happening on a 
> local tty? I'm probably mis-using the terminology so I'll explain: I 
> have a Linux box and its sitting there display the progress of a file 
> transfer through wget (for example). I want to be able to check the 
> transfer progress through SSH.
> 
> Any ideas?

Use screen[1].

On Debian:

$ apt-get install screen

Cheers,
Paul.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/