Jul
31
screen -r : Cannot open your terminal ‘/dev/pts/0’ – please check.
Filed Under Fix, Linux, Unix | 3 Comments
I love screen – it allows you to detach you console and still have the program running.
For more info:
man screen
Recently I experienced following error:
$ screen -r
Cannot open your terminal '/dev/pts/0' - please check.
After searching for solution I found several instructing to change permissions etc.
But different solution, almost “hack” is the one I like.
Before starting screen type:
script /dev/null
And after that you can type:
screen -r
Only drawback is that you need to type one additional exit for script to terminate.
Credits for this to Harry Jackson. Unfortunately the resource was not available so i did to put a link to the site.