I agree screen is very useful.
I really loved Screen back in the days of dialup, but it's great when accessing multiple servers from a lame desktop. PuTTY &/or OpenSSH + screen lets me have manage servers sessions sanely, from anywhere. And I don't even need Screen on all servers, just my "favorites". On my old commandline dialup ISP, I have aliases to start my newsreader and email reader in new screen sessions, which will either create a new screen set or add a new session to the existing set. alias elm='screen elm' alias trn="screen trn $TRN_FLAGS" It's amazing how often an ancient but simpled tool like screen shows up on NewsForge's "My Sysadmin Toolkit Top 10" lists, a wonderful on-going series. [http://www.newsforge.com/search.pl?query=my+sysadmin+toolbox]
I start long jobs that way, so I can reattach later (from a different machine, or after booting into a different OS).
Or after having a dropped connection, as happened in the bad old days of dialup and happens in WiFi once in a while. Or folding the laptop and maybe taking it someplace else, as ought to happen at supper time ... screen can let you go home for supper even if a job is still running, if you think ahead -- or ALWAYS use it!
One annoyance: when I use it with Emacs, I keep forgetting that screen takes over ^A.
Not just real Emacs, but if using Emacs commandline edit mode (set -o emacs). '^A a' works as a pass-through ^A. Usually a couple incidents of this convinces me to toggle to 'set -o vi'. -- Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
