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→‎Reattaching Screen Automatically: talked about ~/.zlogin and ~/.bash_login

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 So, you've made your screen, configured it, and you happily type screen -dr '''every time''' you login to RedBrick. But wouldn't it be nice if whenever you login your screen would reattach '''itself'''??? It can be done :D
-Simply use your favorite text editor to edit your ~/.zshrc (or ~/.[name_of_shell]rc) and paste the following code into it.
+Simply use your favorite text editor to edit your ~/.zlogin if you're using zsh (if you haven't changed your login shell, this is the one you're using) or ~/.bash_login if you're using bash and put the following in it
-  if [ -z "$STY" -a $TERM != "screen" ]
+  screen -dr
- then
-     exec screen -dr
- fi
-That should do the job. However make sure to keep the spaces between the if statement, the brackets and the inside of the if statement (or it won't work).
+That should do the job. It'll try to reattach a screen whenever you login on any redbrick server
-In particular
- $TERM != "screen"
-is very important for that code segment to work, otherwise when connecting to another server (Carbon for instance), your shell will try to attach a screen session, fail and disconnect leaving you on the server you tried to connect from (Really quite annoying).
 * Please note, if this in fact, does not work, you can edit it out by using winSCP and editing the file using it.