I learned from somewhere a detached screen can be killed by
screen -X -S [session # you want to kill] kill
where [session # you want to kill] can be gotten from
screen -ls .
But this doesn't work. Anything wrong? What's the correct way?
I learned from somewhere a detached screen can be killed by
screen -X -S [session # you want to kill] kill
where [session # you want to kill] can be gotten from
screen -ls .
But this doesn't work. Anything wrong? What's the correct way?
"kill" will only kill one screen window. To "kill" the complete session, use quit
.
$ screen -X -S [session # you want to kill] quit
You can kill a detached session which is not responding within the screen session by doing the following.
Type screen -list
to identify the detached screen session.
~$ screen -list There are screens on: 20751.Melvin_Peter_V42 (Detached)
Note: 20751.Melvin_Peter_V42
is your session id.
Get attached to the detached screen session
screen -r 20751.Melvin_Peter_V42
Once connected to the session press Ctrl + A then type :quit
List screens:
screen -list
Output:
There is a screen on:
23536.pts-0.wdzee (10/04/2012 08:40:45 AM) (Detached)
1 Socket in /var/run/screen/S-root.
Kill screen session:
screen -S 23536 -X quit
It's easier to kill a session, when some meaningful name is given:
//Creation:
screen -S some_name proc
// Kill detached session
screen -S some_name -X quit
You can just go to the place where the screen session is housed and run:
screen -ls
which results in
There is a screen on:
26727.pts-0.devxxx (Attached)
1 Socket in /tmp/uscreens/S-xxx. <------ this is where the session is.
And just remove it:
cd /tmp/uscreens/S-xxx
ls
26727.pts-0.devxxx
rm 26727.pts-0.devxxx
ls
The uscreens
directory will not have the 26727.pts-0.devxxx
file in it anymore. Now to make sure just type this:
screen -ls
and you should get:
No Sockets found in /tmp/uscreens/S-xxx.
screen -wipe
Should clean all dead screen sessions.
For me a simple
exit
works. This is from within the screen session.
add this to your ~/.bashrc
:
alias cleanscreen="screen -ls | tail -n +2 | head -n -2 | awk '{print $1}'| xargs -I{} screen -S {} -X quit"
Then use cleanscreen
to clean all screen session.
To kill all detached screen sessions, include this function in your .bash_profile:
killd () {
for session in $(screen -ls | grep -o '[0-9]\{5\}')
do
screen -S "${session}" -X quit;
done
}
to run it, call killd
== ISSUE THIS COMMAND
[xxx@devxxx ~]$ screen -ls
== SCREEN RESPONDS
There are screens on:
23487.pts-0.devxxx (Detached)
26727.pts-0.devxxx (Attached)
2 Sockets in /tmp/uscreens/S-xxx.
== NOW KILL THE ONE YOU DONT WANT
[xxx@devxxx ~]$ screen -X -S 23487.pts-0.devxxx kill
== WANT PROOF?
[xxx@devxxx ~]$ screen -ls
There is a screen on:
26727.pts-0.devxxx (Attached)
1 Socket in /tmp/uscreens/S-xxx.
Alternatively, while in your screen session all you have to do is type exit
This will kill the shell session initiated by the screen, which effectively terminates the screen session you are on.
No need to bother with screen session id, etc.