Many thanks for the tip about screen. I'd never heard of it but it looks incredibly useful. I've just emerged it on my Gentoo machine, and see it's already available in RH9 I stuck on a test machine in England.
This gets my vote for "Tip Of The Day"! Tom On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 12:35, Jim Cheetham wrote: > 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
