On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Jean Christophe Andr? < jean-christophe.andre at auf.org> wrote:
> Hi everybody! > > Since some of you are managing servers remotely, I thought it could > be useful to introduce a very useful hacker tool specifically for > that usage: *screen* > > This tool allows you to create a session independent from your current > connexion and thus allowing to not suffer from network interruption. > > It also allows you to start working from one place (let's say at office) > and continue from one another (let's say at home). > > And finally, it allows you to get multiple shells through one single > connexion, which can be very useful if you need to run multiple > processes in parallel, eg wget/lftp/rsync downloads. > > Here are a few hints to let you start quickly: > screen # will start a screen session and give you a shell > ctrl+a ctrl+d # will detach from the screen current session > screen -ls # list all screen sessions > screen -d # will remotely detach a session (in case you forgot) > screen -r # will re-attach to the last detached screen session > > And some others also useful: > ctrl+a ctrl+c # create a new window (shell) > ctrl+a space # switch to the next window (use multiple times to cycle) > ctrl+a ctrl+w # display a list of all windows > ctrl+a A # give a name to the current window > ctrl+a a # send a real ctrl+a to the running process > > I hope it will be useful to you, and especially for managing virror! ;-) > Screen is a sweet tool, I've been using it for years and it is particularly useful to learn stuff from more experienced people. I even taught my kids on how to use it on the home server -- David Tremblay IT analyst mob: 418-208-3631 jabber: ict4ngo skype : ict4ngo Blog : http://blog.ngowiki.net -------------- section suivante -------------- Une pi?ce jointe HTML a ?t? nettoy?e... URL: http://lists.hanoilug.org/pipermail/hanoilug/attachments/20090210/64f05376/attachment.htm
