okay, it's a bit of hyperbole. but MAN i don't remember what life was like a few weeks ago without "screen"!
there i was, minding my own business... i noticed my /home partition filling up, so i started a laborious copy sendnig the files to another box across town so i could reswizzle my partitions -- and once that got started i noticed the real culprit was not all these images, but .xsession-errors which was 2.3gb all by itself! tons of repeated error messages in there -- so, i kill my X session (nice logout, albeit rudely closing xterm windows which were running the screen sessions) and i try logging back in... lockup! X won't budge! KDE (i know, i know) is hung! i switch (alt-f1) to console, log in, kill a bothersome process or two, try "screen -r" and POOF my file transfers are STILL GOING (along with a mutt session -- this one :) -- and several vim sessions) so i switch (alt-f7) back to X. all is well now, apparently. and now i've got 50% free now that the 2.3gb file is back to a measly 15k. i crank up konsole, enter "screen -D -R" and POOF my file transfers are STILL GOING, happy as a lark/clam/moi! now i've got a kde-startup issue to iron out, sure, but my transfers are as hunky and as dory as can be! --- okay, this is no big deal for an rsync transfer to get interrupted. it'll pick right back up where it left off, too (more properly, it'll send the data necessary to change the target to match the source). it's the principle of the thing -- the process is still chugging along, despite a logout, despite login troubles, whether at console or within X. imagine if i'd been running something IMPORTANT! very, very sexy, this "screen" thing. very! -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux boss 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #118 from D. Hoyem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Looking for APT-GET TIPS AND INFORMATION? I found that this url was a very informative source for apt-get information: http://debian-br.sourceforge.net/docs/sgml/apt-howto-en/online/ Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
