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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by dryicerx on Monday September 28, 2009 @01:56PM (#848858)
I don't think I can live without it anymore.

There is no reason why you shouldn't use screen when ssh'ing in and working on remote machines, it will save you tons of time in case the connection goes down, plus allows your to keep a persistent working environment on remote boxes.

    ssh -t user@host screen -rx
That will drop you immediately to a running screen on connect
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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by mooism2 on Monday September 28, 2009 @03:14PM (#849011)
My remote `.bash_profile` ends

    screen -d -R
    logout
On the rare occasions that I don't want to run under screen, I run `ssh -t user@host bash`.
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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by pyre on Monday September 28, 2009 @03:21PM (#849031)
I hope you mean on the server. IIRC, some things like GNOME will source .profile or .bash_profile so that you can have globally customized $PATH,etc variables.
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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by mooism2 on Monday September 28, 2009 @07:11PM (#849427)
On remote servers, yes.
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