"screen" help

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Chris Corbyn
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"screen" help

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I was running a command which takes a very long time in a "screen" process. It was a pretty important command which is why I used screen in case my connection died or anything. Anyway, the screen ended with "[screen is terminating]" and now I can't see anything that was going on in that screen so I'm not sure if it failed or succeeded after 3 hours of running :( Anyone know if there's likely to be a log, or some way to check what happened in that screen once it's ended?

Working late the day before a major launch sucks :( It's 1am and doesn't appear I'll be going to bed before starting work in the morning :(
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Re: "screen" help

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AFAIK, Screen outputs to the syslog. Did you have a reboot or something, or did you "exit" instead of ctrl+a, ctrl+d? It's *very* unusual for Screen to just terminate.
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