I haven't found this to be very much of a problem, though it certainly could be one. For example, I typically have many lynx sessions running. I did, however, want to say that I particularly appreciate how smart mutt is about such things. It will happily switch write access to whichever console has focus. Consequently, I used to go back and forth between home and my office for weeks on end never logging out of mutt at either site. Of course, I would also do a "$" command to sync the current view to the actual mailbox. Nowadays, I do things a bit differently. I have procmail sorting mail into several folders, and I run screen to automatically open five of these folders into a diffrent terminal view on console 1. I detach and reattach this screen session depending on which room I'm currently working in. Very handy. Chuck Hallenbeck writes: > > A note of caution about logging in twice as the same user. Be careful > not to run the same application in two consoles as the same user, unless > you are sure the application can deal with that okay. For instance, if > you are running pine in one console, and then open another console as > the same user and run another copy of pine, one of them will have "read > only" access to your folders, and you will be unable to save or delete > stuff. I normally keep lots of consoles open at once, but not as the > same user. > > C.H. > > On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Ann K. Parsons wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >Now, this question I can answer. Yes, you can log on as yourself in > >console 1 and as root in 2 or whatever. You can log on as yourself in > >two or three consoles at the same time if you choose. I'm currently > >logged into four consoles, One is where I'm running my emacs session. > >One is where my current audio book is sitting. One is where I log > >onto the reflector, and one's for just stuff. Linux is truly a > >multitasking OS, it's not fake! > > > >You can even log in as yourself in a console and "su" to root if you > >need to do that. > > > >However, the book is absolutely right. You don't want to be root > >unless you absolutely have to. You *can* break things that way. > > > >Ann P. > > > >-- > > Ann K. Parsons > >email: akp at eznet.net > >WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp > >"All that is gold does not glitter. > >Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (91% of Full) > "Things are in the saddle, and they ride mankind." Ralph Waldo Emerson > Personal site www.hhs48.com, Download site www.mhcable.com/~chuckh > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040 If Linux doesn't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.
