GNU/screen compiled for CS-407 & DS-107+

[m.aicardi]

I think gnu/screen (normally just "screen" in the Linux world) is, after ssh and rsync, one of the most important programs for the Linux user.

The most interesting feature of screen is that you can create a session and then drop the communication with the cubestation (or detach with Ctrl-A then D); screen will detach and the session will continue to work in the background until you connect again and resume screen (with the "screen -ar" command).

I am proud that I've succeeded in compiling screen for the Marvell MV5281-based CS/DS products.

You can download the binary here.

Comments are welcome.

Here is the description of the screen package:

Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells. Each virtual terminal provides the functions of the DEC VT100 terminal and, in addition, several control functions from the ANSI X3.64 (ISO 6429) and ISO 2022 standards (e.g., insert/delete line and support for multiple character sets). There is a scrollback history buffer for each virtual terminal and a copy-and-paste mechanism that allows the user to move text regions between windows. When screen is called, it creates a single window with a shell in it (or the specified command) and then gets out of your way so that you can use the program as you normally would. Then, at any time, you can create new (full-screen) windows with other programs in them (including more shells), kill the current window, view a list of the active windows, turn output logging on and off, copy text between windows, view the scrollback history, switch between windows, etc. All windows run their programs completely independent of each other. Programs continue to run when their window is currently not visible and even when the whole screen session is detached from the users terminal.

[ikeke]

Great Work thanks a lot !!!

[remmelt]

Thanks! Works perfectly.

[mio75]

Hi,

I'm getting this error on my 207+ when I SSH to it using putty:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
BusyBox v1.1.0 (2007.11.01-13:20+0000) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

DiskStation> screen
Cannot find terminfo entry for 'xterm'.
DiskStation>
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Any ideas?

I've also tried using SecureCRT's VT100 terminal, then it's just a 'vt100' that's missing

Thanks,
M

[bjorn]

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DiskStation>  screen
sh: screen: Permission denied
DiskStation> chmod 755 screen
DiskStation> screen
Cannot find terminfo entry for 'xterm'.
DiskStation>

Strange...

[remmelt]

Try this:

TERM=vt102
screen

That should work.

[mio75]

WORKS! THANKS!

(See this is one of these resons why windows is so much easier...not so many 'secret' needed commands )

...anyway, now all we need is amule

/M

[AleksCee]

by unsing putty a good workaround is:

add the line to /etc/profile:

alias screen="TERM=vt102 screen"

Alex

[helvstrom]

I've tried to cross compile GNU Screen for DS409 (Marvell 6281), and got lots of errors from the original compilation scripts.

Can you share the scripts you used to compile it? I would really appreciate that.

Thanks.