Re: [Dorset] GNU screen

2011-12-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi John, > Yeah, I've used it for that, but a question came up at work the other > day - can this be done between different user accounts? Yes, screen(1) has a multiuser mode and access control lists. See the "multiuser" and "addacl" commands. But it needs screen to be setuid root in order to a

Re: [Dorset] GNU screen

2011-12-02 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
On 02/12/11 16:09, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi John, You can also share a screen session from two places (screen -x). This can be handy for two people to share the same terminal, e.g. one watches what the other's doing. Yeah, I've used it for that, but a question came up at work the other day

Re: [Dorset] GNU screen

2011-12-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi John, > You can also share a screen session from two places (screen -x). This can be handy for two people to share the same terminal, e.g. one watches what the other's doing. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-12-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http:

Re: [Dorset] GNU screen

2011-12-02 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
On 02/12/11 13:43, Tim Allen wrote: Hi I'm often discovering nifty utilities that I'm embarrassed not to have known about years ago. This week it's GNU screen: http://www.gnu.org/s/screen/ Although I haven't really used it, you could also look at tmux which is a more modern utility that doe

Re: [Dorset] GNU screen

2011-12-02 Thread Victor Churchill
Hi Tim/Ralph & all, On 2 December 2011 14:11, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > I'm often discovering nifty utilities that I'm embarrassed not to have > > known about years ago. This week it's GNU screen: > I too felt a bit silly about not having come across it before I did - and at first I thought "w

Re: [Dorset] GNU screen

2011-12-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Tim, > I'm often discovering nifty utilities that I'm embarrassed not to have > known about years ago. This week it's GNU screen: > > http://www.gnu.org/s/screen/ Yes, very handy. Dates back to the 80s. :) There's also byobu which is an "enhancement" to screen and can display configurable

[Dorset] GNU screen

2011-12-02 Thread Tim Allen
Hi I'm often discovering nifty utilities that I'm embarrassed not to have known about years ago. This week it's GNU screen: http://www.gnu.org/s/screen/ Really useful console window manager, particularly useful for having multiple terminals open on a remote machine, especially as if you los