I recently switched from using screen to tmux (obtained through macports), as I like the feature set more. However, I can't seem to get tmux to reattach from an alternate location, like I can screen.
At home on my mac, I will open up iTerm2, my default shell is zsh, and I will begin a tmux session with tmux. I get all my spits set up, ssh'd into the proper servers, etc., and work for a while. Time to go to work. <C-a> d - tmux detaches.
I get to work, where I use a windows xp machine. I fire up putty, ssh into my mac back at home, attempt a tmux attach, and get an error message:
no sessions
I cannot seem to determine why this would happen. I am not afraid to dig into this, but don't even know where to start. Thoughts?
P.S. I have already removed my .tmux.conf file, so it's using the default config.
Answer
In my case, apparently temp folder was cleaned.
This blog post helped me recover my “lost” session:
I finally got the solution: sending the signal 10 forced tmux to recreate sockets. After that I could run tmux again without losing my session:
$ killall -10 tmux