[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

Re: [Dorset] GNU screen

2011-12-02 Thread Victor Churchill
Hi Tim/Ralph all, On 2 December 2011 14:11, Ralph Corderoy ra...@inputplus.co.uk 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

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

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, ...

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, 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 access