A common problem when many people share large systems as the same user ( I know .. I know but anyways move on ) is that when you logon you might want to take over where someone else left off. Also sometimes you want to share a session with someone for supervision or just team experience.
Screen tool in linux is fantastic for this. I wrote this script to allow people to be reminded to have a screen session and if already there allow you to log on to the screen by either taking over the session or sharing it with the other user.
installation of screen is as easy as :
sudo yum install screen -y
or for you debbie penguins out there
sudo apt-get install screen -y
The script goes like this :
## Screen profile for user session sharing
## by David Saliba (copyleft) 2013
#!/bin/bash
function greet {
clear
cat /etc/motd
echo "Hostname:" `hostname `
echo
ifconfig | grep inet | egrep -v "inet6|localhost|127\.0\.0\.1"
echo
# df -h /
echo "Welcome ! # No screen session #"
}
function newscreen {
echo "Would you like to create a new session ? (Y/n)"
read -t 10 b
if [[ $b == "N" || $b == "n" ]]; then
{ # Dummy if no just continue
echo
}
else
{
echo " Remember to use <CTRL> + A and then d to leave the screen session active or just disconnect "
echo -n "Creating "
sleep 1; echo -n "." ;sleep 1; echo -n "."; sleep 1; echo -n "."
exec screen -S Workarea
}
fi
}
if [ -z "$STY" ]; then
firstscreen=$(screen -list | grep "(" | cut -f 2 | head -n 1)
# echo $firstscreen
if [ ! -z "$firstscreen" ]; then
{
echo "Found screen ($firstscreen).Do you want to jump on it (Y), or share the session (X)? (Default Y in 10s)"
read -t 10 a
if [[ $a == "N" || $a == "n" ]]; then
{
greet
}
elif [[ $a == "X" || $a == "x" ]]; then
{
echo -n "Joining "
sleep 1; echo -n "." ;sleep 1; echo -n ".";
exec screen -x $firstscreen
}
else
{
echo -n "Connecting and taking over"
sleep 1; echo -n "." ;sleep 1; echo -n ".";
exec screen -r -d $firstscreen
}
fi
}
else
{
greet str3amuK
newscreen
}
fi
fi
Save this script under /etc/profile.d/screen.sh or some other name you will recognize.
