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i am using redhat openshift, and find some problems now:

a) why default screen can not support path which contains too much characters

[xxname-xxname.rhcloud.com ~]\> which screen
/usr/bin/screen
[xxname-xxname.rhcloud.com ~]\> screen -S l
LoginName too long - sorry.

[xxname-xxname.rhcloud.com ~]\> screen -S l
LoginName too long - sorry.


[xxname-xxname.rhcloud.com ~]\> ls
app-root  git  jbosseap-6.0  xxname
[xxname-xxname.rhcloud.com ~]\> cd jbosseap-6.0/jbosseap-6.0/tools/bin/
[xxname-xxname.rhcloud.com bin]\> ls
screen  screen-4.1.0  screen-4.1.0.old  screen.old  tmux

b) why i have not priviledge to access /dev/pts/0?

    [xxname-xxname.rhcloud.com bin]\> ./screen-4.1.0 -S l
    Cannot access '/dev/pts/0': Permission denied

more details:

[xxname.rhcloud.com ~]\> ls / -l
ls: cannot access /cgroup: Permission denied
ls: cannot access /lost+found: Permission denied
ls: cannot access /boot: Permission denied
ls: cannot access /net: Permission denied
ls: cannot access /misc: Permission denied
ls: cannot access /root: Permission denied
ls: cannot access /home: Permission denied
total 76
dr-xr-xr-x.   2 root                             root  4096 Sep  6 16:02 bin
d??????????   ? ?                                ?        ?            ? boot
d??????????   ? ?                                ?        ?            ? cgroup
drwxr-xr-x.  17 root                             root  3540 Sep  6 13:47 dev
drwxr-xr-x. 103 root                             root 12288 Sep  7 00:47 etc
d??????????   ? ?                                ?        ?            ? home
dr-xr-xr-x.  12 root                             root  4096 Sep  6 13:23 lib
dr-xr-xr-x.   9 root                             root 12288 Sep  6 16:02 lib64
d??????????   ? ?                                ?        ?            ? lost+found
drwxr-xr-x.   2 root                             root  4096 Jun 28  2011 media
d??????????   ? ?                                ?        ?            ? misc
drwxr-xr-x.   2 root                             root  4096 Jun 28  2011 mnt
d??????????   ? ?                                ?        ?            ? net
drwxr-xr-x.   5 root                             root  4096 Sep  6 11:55 opt
dr-xr-xr-x. 193 root                             root     0 Sep  6 13:46 proc
d??????????   ? ?                                ?        ?            ? root
drwxrwxrwt.   2 e13f3da3651c44758b254e5bc7bbdddb root  4096 Sep  6 17:13 sandbox
dr-xr-xr-x.   2 root                             root 12288 Sep  6 16:02 sbin
drwxr-xr-x.   7 root                             root     0 Sep  6 13:46 selinux
drwxr-xr-x.   2 root                             root  4096 Jun 28  2011 srv
drwxr-xr-x.  13 root                             root     0 Sep  6 13:46 sys
drwxrwxrwt.   3 e13f3da3651c44758b254e5bc7bbdddb root  4096 Sep  7 00:51 tmp
drwxr-xr-x.  14 root                             root  4096 Sep  6 11:51 usr
drwxr-xr-x.  22 root                             root  4096 Sep  6 11:43 var
[xxname.rhcloud.com ~]\> ls /dev/pts -l
ls: cannot access /dev/pts: Permission denied
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A quick google reveals an old limitation with screen, and also that openshift login names are quite long.

Try out tmux instead for an alternative. It should be available in the Red Hat repositories.

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  • i have tried tmux, failed either... maybe openshift don't support tmux
    – giantforest
    Sep 7, 2012 at 18:08
  • Is it the same error when using tmux?
    – Andy H
    Sep 8, 2012 at 7:47
  • no error is shown in fact
    – giantforest
    Sep 8, 2012 at 12:34

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