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Re: reading an environment variable from screen [SOLVED]
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Michael Grant |
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Re: reading an environment variable from screen [SOLVED] |
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Thu, 17 Dec 2020 17:52:28 -0500 |
On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 10:46:43AM -0500, Michael Grant wrote:
> Slight change to my previous message:
>
>
> if [ -n "$STY" ]; then
> function fix_ssh_auth_sock() {
> screen -S $STY -X colon "msgwait 0\r"
> export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=`screen -S $STY -Q echo '$SSH_AUTH_SOCK\r'`
> screen -S $STY -X colon "msgwait 5\r"
> }
> export PROMPT_COMMAND=fix_ssh_auth_sock
> fi
Ok so in fact, this is not working.
I thought $SSH_AUTH_SOCK was different in each reattached screen
process but it's apparently not. I ended up fooling myself, perhaps
when I started screen twice on the same machine.
I'm back to getting one of the other methods to work now.
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