Kill detached screen session [closed]

Question

"kill" will only kill one screen window. To "kill" the complete session, use quit.

Example

$ screen -X -S [session # you want to kill] quit

For dead sessions use: $ screen -wipe

You can kill a detached session which is not responding within the screen session by doing the following.

1. 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.

2. Get attached to the detached screen session

   screen -r 20751.Melvin_Peter_V42

3. 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:

1. cd /tmp/uscreens/S-xxx

2. ls

3. 26727.pts-0.devxxx

4. rm 26727.pts-0.devxxx

5. 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.