[KLUG Members] Shadowing a terminal

Adam Tauno Williams members@kalamazoolinux.org
Wed, 28 Nov 2001 10:33:22 -0500 (EST)


>Is it possible to shadow a terminal?  I'm thinking of something similar
>in nature to shadowing a citrix session but with a simple text based
>console.  Is there a way to accomplish watching what someone else is doing
>while they do it to assist in remotely assisting people.

screen has some facilities for this,  but I don't know if it does exactly what
you want.  I did this once with something called "ttysnoop" or something very
similiar (freshmeat search time :).  There is also a really crappy commerical
product called Double Vision that does this as well.

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