Re: help with "screen progname args"

[Buddy Burden]

Kresimir,

> Then I tried to start one program that I made called "fooprog". fooprog 
> is interactive, it reads from stdin and writes to stdout, and when run 
> first asks for a password.
>
> However, when I tried with:
> screen fooprog
> I got the message: [the screen is terminating].

Sounds to me like "fooprog" is checking to see if its stdin is hooked to a terminal before it will ask for a password. 
Since it's not, it's bailing.  I don't think there's an easy way around that, unless "fooprog" is something that's under 
your control.  I suppose you could investigate an Expect script or something like that, although I don't know if even 
that will fool it.

> I would also like that when I type
> screen fooprog
> (or something similar), that screen keeps running even after fooprog 
> terminates.

Wow, deja vu ...

If you flip back through the archives, there were just three answers to this very question.  Screen's "stuff" command 
was one (and the one I would have recommended if someone hadn't beaten me to it), and there was something about the 
"zombie" command, and I forget the other one.  It was just in the past few days.


                -- Buddy