Using `script /dev/null` is the advice on <
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Screen#Troubleshooting>gt;, but I don't
know what the security consequences/implications are either.
Ahh...thanks for pointing that out. I searched just the Toolforge
documentation on Wikitech and so completely missed that page. I'll add the
information Arturo added about jsub.
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 6:44 PM Kunal Mehta <legoktm(a)member.fsf.org> wrote:
Hi,
On 2020-06-23 07:47, Isaac Johnson wrote:
I'm interested in running some long-ish
scripts that loop through the
dump replicas on Toolforge. Eventually, this sort of thing might move to
crontab, but for now it would be nice to run a screen session as we test
/ debug the scripts. The problem is that if I run the scripts from my
tool account (i.e. after "become <tool-name>"), I get the following
error: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/pts/28' - please check.
Using `script /dev/null` is the advice on
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Screen#Troubleshooting>, but I
don't know what the security consequences/implications are either.
-- Legoktm
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Isaac Johnson (he/him/his) -- Research Scientist -- Wikimedia Foundation