<quote who="Voytek Eymont"> > if I'm on a ssh connection to a remote Linux machine, and, : > > wish to run something that will take some time to process, and, I want to > log off before it completes, what do I use to spin off such action > in a separate session that will survive ssh logof ? > > also, at the moment, I have been opening say 4 separate ssh sessions to the > remote machine (which is a bit of PITA having to logon 4 times), someone > here pointed at 'screen' which I guess gives me similar functionality, is > that the way to run multiple sessions to the same host ?
screen will solve both problems. The man page is pretty clear, and there are lots of "how to use screen" pages on the web. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ "Everyone's a little queer, why can't she be a little straight?" - Weezer, Pink Triangle -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
