a tip with screen: If you want to split terminal into 2 window, try Ctrl+a+S (uppercase S ), then use Ctrl+a+tab to switch between them ;)
have fun On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:53 AM, 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! ;-) > > -- > Jean Christophe "????" ANDR? ? ? ? Responsable technique r?gional > Bureau Asie-Pacifique (BAP) ? ? ? http://www.asie-pacifique.auf.org/ > Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AuF) ? ? ? http://www.auf.org/ > Adresse postale : AUF, 21 L? Th?nh T?ng, T.T. Ho?n Ki?m, H? N?i, Vi?t Nam > T?l. : +84 4 9331108 ? Fax : +84 4 8247383 ? Cellul. : +84 91 3248747 > ? Note personnelle: merci d'?viter de m'envoyer des fichiers PowerPoint ? > ? ou Word, cf http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.fr.html ? > > > > _______________________________________________ > POST RULES : http://wiki.hanoilug.org/hanoilug:mailing_list_guidelines > _______________________________________________ > HanoiLUG mailing lists: http://lists.hanoilug.org/ > HanoiLUG wiki: http://wiki.hanoilug.org/ > HanoiLUG blog: http://blog.hanoilug.org/ >
