Kill named running screen with -X only works after reattached

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Published on 2010-05-01T10:07:44Z Indexed on 2010/05/01 10:19 UTC
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Hello

I am using ubuntu 8.04.4 and would like to start daemons like this:

screen -dmS SESSIONNAME script.sh

Then i want to kill these screens with -X like so

screen -S SESSIONAME -X kill

But, this does not work. Only if i attach and detach that session it gets kill'ed with above command. What am i doing wrong? I would like to not have to attach/deattach the session to kill it since i want to use fabric scripts that start/stop daemons remotly.

- Thank you

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