On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Volker Kuhlmann <[email protected]> wrote: >> ctrl-q or ctrl-s (I think) one of them pauses output, the other >> restarts. However I can't find a file big enough to take long enough >> to cat it that I have time to try the key combos. > > That's something else Nick. It pauses output on the receiving side's > terminal, and once the receive buffers are full the sending processs > locks. What Steve means is probably causing the sending process on the > remote side to stop pushing more unwanted stuff down the pipe, thus > keeping communications lines unclogged.
Yes I get that now. The answer might be to use screen on every remote session, then you can log out and rejoin the session. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
