Screen

rizzler

Hello

I wonder if there is a pkg for "screen" out there somewhere for pfsense? i googled around for it but could not find any myself :/

podilarius

You mean like the "screen" program in Linux?

rizzler

@podilarius:

You mean like the "screen" program in Linux?

yes exactly, when you SSH in and you can use "screen" to have a session in the terminal stay up.

podilarius

there is a port for that:

http://www.freebsddiary.org/screen.php

in your firewall probably:

pkg_add -r screen

Let us know if it works.

rizzler

@podilarius:

there is a port for that:

http://www.freebsddiary.org/screen.php

in your firewall probably:

pkg_add -r screen

Let us know if it works.

Error: Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8.1-release/Latest/screen.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8.1-release/Latest/screen.tbz' by URL

:/

podilarius

Try setting this:

setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/Latest

then:::

pkg_add -r screen

rizzler

@podilarius:

Try setting this:

setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/Latest

then:::

pkg_add -r screen

still got

Error: Unable to get http://ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/Latestscreen.tbz: Not Found
pkg_add: unable to fetch 'http://ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/Latestscreen.tbz' by URL

marcelloc

there is an ftp in your http url, try this link:

i386 version
pkg_add -r http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/Latest/screen.tbz

rizzler

@marcelloc:

there is an ftp in your http url, try this link:

i386 version
pkg_add -r http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/Latest/screen.tbz

Sorry if im a little noob, im not to used to freeBSD yet, did it and got

pkg_add -r http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/Latest/screen.tbz
Fetching http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/Latest/screen.tbz… Done.

isint pkg_add -r supposed to install it after it has fetched it ?

marcelloc

Yes, :) after done message, exit terminal and then choose option 8 again.

After this you will able to call screen binary without full path.

podilarius

Sorry about the http://ftp:// ..started typeing http:// then looked up the address and forgot to remove the extra.
You could have just removed the http:// and it would have worked.

rizzler

@podilarius:

Sorry about the http://ftp:// ..started typeing http:// then looked up the address and forgot to remove the extra.
You could have just removed the http:// and it would have worked.

pkg_add -r ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/Latest/screen.tbz
Fetching ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/Latest/screen.tbz… Done.
pkg_add: package 'screen-4.0.3_7' or its older version already installed

now i got that and tryed "screen" or "beacon% screen" but command not found :/

podilarius

did you do as marcelloc suggested and did an exit and return to shell to see if it was added to the path correctly?

rizzler

@podilarius:

did you do as marcelloc suggested and did an exit and return to shell to see if it was added to the path correctly?

ah forgot that parts, now it works perfectly, thank you so much for all the help! :)