sysutils/screen switched from using named pipes to local domain sockets

[David Wolfskill]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 01:36:12PM +0200, Trond Endrestøl wrote:
> Maybe a heads-up is in order.
> 
> If you're in the (bad?) habit of running portupgrade, etc, from 
> sysutils/screen, beware that screen 4.2.1 switched from using named 
> pipes to local domain sockets. The naming of sockets hasn't changed, 
> only the (file) type.
> 
> Stop any running screen sessions before upgrading sysutils/screen, or 
> perhaps you should upgrade your ports while in single-user mode.
> ....

Or perform the work under a sysutils/tmux session (though in the
past, there has been at least one time when an upgrade to tmux would
break the ability to reconnect to an existing tmux session, as
well).

Peace,
david   (who does upgrade under tmux(1) -- and script(1))
-- 
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