[TriLUG] introduction to screen

[David A. Cafaro]

LOL, I just learned of that tool last week.  I can't believe I had gone
so long with out it.  Two thumbs up to screen!!

On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 00:58, Jason Tower wrote:
> for those of you who are unfamiliar with this handy utility:
> 
> http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/3/9/16838/14935
> 
> lots of trilug folks use it to keep a persistent IRC session running on moya 
> (the trilug shell server).  personally, i use it on many of my servers to 
> run monitoring utilities that i can "check" from time to time without 
> having to rerun them at every logon.  it also comes in very handy if you're 
> on a flaky net connection, when running long jobs, or to work around ssh 
> timeouts.
> 
> jason