Warren, > How can I switch tty's between these connections? Say I started a > huge command on one tty and the connection broke...., the command is > now waiting on input from me, but I can't give it because I'm not > connected to this process/tty, whatever.
I highly recommend GNU screen <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/>. It's a terminal multiplexer and it's tailor-made for situations like this. You start a screen session and run huge_command in the session. Now huge_command is attached to a tty inside the session. You can detach from the session and log out. The session is still there and huge_command is still running. Later you log back in and reattach to the screen session. You're looking at the output of huge_command again. The commands running inside the session don't even know you went away. You can also start multiple commands inside a session and switch between their ttys. While huge_command is running you can start another shell in the session and carry on working. Any time you like you can switch back and see how far huge_command has progressed. If you detach from the session both huge_command and your other shell carry on as if nothing has happened. If I have to do remote work on a terminal the first thing I do is set up screen. Top tip: if you're an emacs junkie you will almost certainly want to rebind the screen escape key to something other than the default Ctrl-A. I use Ctrl-\. (This all assumes you're connecting to a Unix box, of course.) Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
