On 12/16/06, Jed Reynolds <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It took me about 10 years of using unix in general before I learned about screen and I sorely regret not having learning about it sooner. I've been using screen for about three years now and I just can't do without it.
I used screen almost exclusively for several years a long time ago and was very happy with it. I still use it when connecting with ssh from my PDA because it's text-only and the connection is unreliable. Most of the time, though, I use VNC or FreeNX so I can dis/re-connect my entire X desktop; it's just not worth it to mess around on the level of individual terminals. There's also something called retty (http://pasky.or.cz/~pasky/dev/retty/, available from rpmforge) that I haven't really tried out much yet, that lets you interact with a process that's running on a different tty device. That doesn't help if the first tty has actually hung up, and it seems to be tricky to get it to work right even on simple processes. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
