On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 12:13, Tom Munro Glass wrote: > Yes, the larger installation will be very remote - in England!
That shouldn't put you off, I co-admin a bunch of FreeBSD machines in the UK, only 300ms away over 23 hops ... I use screen on the remote box, so I can ssh in and restore the screen session, getting multiple shell sessions all held open and running (i.e. some of them page log files, so I can leave them running while I'm away from the box ...) Also useful to leave long possibly-interactive commands running, in case you're worried that your link to the server might go down. As long as the server stays up, screen keeps your jobs running. -jim
