I use screen a lot, and it is very nice indeed. (It's also one of the Slack/390 packages I build.) Whoever wrote it, deserves a reward. One of the cool things you can do with it is "share" an SSH session with someone else so they can see exactly what you're doing, or they can let them do some of the typing. Great for demonstrations, or showing someone exactly how an error is getting generated, etc. Or, its a way for the system administrator to see just what a user is doing to generate an error. Probably the more likely case. :)
As far as "the occasional product that seems to think it absolutely has to install that way," if you have X forwarding turned on in your sshd_config file, and your SSH client supports it, you do _not_ have to run X or VNC on the system where you're doing the install. It all gets tunneled back to your desktop where you will need some kind of X server running (Exceed, X-Win32, Cygwin, etc.). This consumes the least amount of CPU and network resources, because only the one application is running. VNC is only necessary if for some reason you need some kind of desktop/window manager running on the actual Linux system. I haven't run into that need yet. I doubt I ever will. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 4:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: vncserver/vncclient Rick wrote: >> Why would one even want to use VNC to a Linux system? >I rely on it HEAVILY for the disconnect/reconnect feature. A helpful person from Levanta suggested the "screen" package for this. Someday, I'll get around to actually trying it out! >The value of a VNC server on mainframe Linux is largely proof-of-concept. Or the occasional product that seems to think it absolutely has to install that way. Marcy Cortes http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
