how to map pfkeys to screen -r cmds

[Malcolm Kay]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 00:52, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 00:28, Marty Landman wrote:
> > At 04:13 AM 11/16/2003, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > >I think you may have misunderstood the nature of the virtual terminals.
> > > What do you hope to do through ssh. The virtual terminal is relavent
> > > only to the local machine -- if pretends that there are 16 (or however
> > > many are set up) separate screens and keyboards and these share the
> > > real screen and keyboard by
> > >switching -- normally throgh the Alt-f? combination.
> >
> > Ok Malcolm, I see what you mean. When ssh'g in the alt-f combo doesn't
> > give me a new screen but when on the master console it does.
> >
> > Here's what I'd like... to have the most convenient way - w/o installing
> > X @ this time to have several sessions at once. Session may not be the
> > right word but still. The screen cmd is kind of close but the alt-f
> > feature you've explained seems much better, easier for me to use.
> >
> > My workstation is where I've been working from, su root'ing when needed.
> > Besides letting me work on one monitor/keybd it also lets me copy/paste
> > from the workstation easily. But right now I've got the fbsd monitor on
> > and the keyboard behind me with 3 sessions running.
>
> Probably not what you want; but assuming the machine you are ssh'ing from
> is FreeBSD or Linux or something else with virtual terminals then you can
> have multiple local logins and from each run a separate ssh session on the
> remote machine. Once setup the Alt-f? key strokes will switch between those
> separate ssh sessions.
>

Thinking it through there is actually a more direct route to achieving this 
result. First make sure that the user who is about to make the ssh 
connections has rw access to a number of inactive local virtual terminals,
say /dev/ttyv9 /dev/ttyva and /dev/ttyvb; if necessary as root:
# chmod o+rw /dev/ttyv[9ab]

Now as the user from a login console:
> ssh other.machine < /dev/ttyv9 >& /dev/ttyv9 &
> ssh other.machine < /dev/ttyva >& /dev/ttyva & 
> ssh other.machine < /dev/ttyvb >& /dev/ttyvb &

which should result in three ssh sessions simultaneously active on 
/dev/ttyv9, /dev/ttyva and /dev/ttyvb

And you can switch between these sessions with Alt-f10, Alt-f11 and Alt-f12.
You can only switch into these once they are active -- that is after the 
appropriate instance of ssh has been started.

(The command lines above assume you are using the default csh (tcsh) 
interactive shell.)

Malcolm