Today I needed to connect to a customer site to check something and the last time I connected to this site was 6 month ago. At that time I installed tmux on one of their Linux servers. So I was hoping my tmux session was still there and could reuse it.
However, my VPN history for this site have been flushed since I haven’t worked on it for a long time, I forgot which server has tmux installed! They have more than 20 Linux servers and I searched it on a few of them with no luck. I could continue to connect to each one of them to check or there could be something to easliy give me a hint?
Usually I connect to a database server via SSH, so if my tmux session is still alive with SSH session connecting to the database sever and I should be able to see which servers SSH sessions come from to determine my tmux box.
Then the question is how do I find out SSH sessions connecting to a server? Well there are lots of ways as mentioned below:
- checking logs for example: /var/log/audit/audit.log on Oracle Linux 6
- netstat -tnpn |grep ssh
- echo $SSH_CONNECTION
- ss |grep ssh
- w, who -a, who
- last | grep “still logged in”
I just used who and got my tmux server back!
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