On Sun, Mar 16, 2008, Pat Welch wrote:
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>
>I think you are misunderstanding the primary purpose behind this thread
>- It's not to access the server per se, it's the ability to attach to a
>specific users pty or tty *AFTER* they've already logged in and are
>actively running the application you are trying to fix/debug.
>
>We are talking about the Unix equivalent of the old windows PCanywhere
>program or the current RDP, except we can, with the right permissions,
>attach to any logged in session on the server, or even (with DV) log in
>on a specific serial line or console multi-screen.

Many years ago I did some of this using the ``kibitz'' script
that was part of ``expect''. At the time I think I was using OSR
5.0.something (1996 or so).

Bill
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