I asked the original question, and it seems that screen does the job perfectly. I haven't tried vnc though. With screen, just ssh in as the person you want to login as, and type screen, and do whatever you want to do, the detach by Ctrl+a+d. Seems simple enough. On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 15:25, Pierre Lamb wrote: > Why not use VNC???? > --- Mike Burger <mburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, javier wilson wrote: > > > > > shane c branch said: > > > > > > > > i use putty to connect to my box, and when i > > disconnect, it closes the > > > > connection. if there is a way to leave a process > > running and resume the > > > > connection, i'd be interested to know this as > > well. > > > > -- > > > > > > can't you just use "&" to keep the process > > running? > > > > Sure, but you can't get the process back into the > > foreground to check its > > status or results. > > -- > > Mike Burger > > http://www.bubbanfriends.org > > > > Visit the Dog Pound II BBS > > telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or > > http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 > > > > To be notified of updates to the web site, send a > > message to: > > > > site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > with a message of: > > > > subscribe > > > > > > -- > > Shrike-list mailing list > > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
