On 10/22/11 05:02, Ellis H. Wilson III wrote: > > Insane? I mean, I do a lot of work on a bunch of different distros and > hardware types, and have found little use for screen /unless/ I was on a > really, really poor internet connection that cut out on the minutes > level. Can you give some examples regarding something you can do with > screen you cannot do with nohup and tail? > >
Here's a few I can think of: * Multiple shells off one login * Scroll buffer * Copy&paste w/o needing a mouse * Start session logging at any time, w/o needing to remember to use script or nohup I guess I'm with Andrew, where the first thing I do upon logging in is either connecting to an existing screen session or starting a fresh one. -- -- Skylar Thompson (sky...@cs.earlham.edu) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/
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