On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Simon King<[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi! > > On 16 Jul., 10:51, "Dr. David Kirkby" <[email protected]> wrote: > ... >> I've also found 'nohup' useful if running a program from a remote >> location, as the session does not abort if the connection dies. > > "nohup" keeps your process alive if the connection dies, but you can > not interact with your process. Hence, when you start a nohup'd > process, you need to take care that it saves the results on disk. > > Therefore I find "screen" better. In contrast to nohup, it gives you a > console. It keeps your process *and* the (emulated) console alive, if > the connection dies. Hence, after logging into you computer again > (after your return or by ssh), you can restore the console, still > being in your sage process. You can just continue to work. > > I was pointed to screen by Michael Abshoff.
A lot of the people on sage.math use screen to constantly log onto the IRC chatroom #sage-devel. I know I do :-) -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
