GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal

Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by potatolicious on Monday September 28, 2009 @03:24PM (#849033)

I use screen constantly and would never go back. The detachability is incredibly useful. Say I had to go to a meeting - I shut my laptop and it goes to sleep. This would normally kill any SSH session (and thus leave vim swap files lying about in my case)... but with screen I can just pick up where I left off last time.

It's also great if you want to run something big - say a job that would take 5 hours. I'm free to do whatever I want without fear that killing my ssh session will also kill the job.

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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by scott_s on Monday September 28, 2009 @03:40PM (#849063)

Your second scenario can be handled with nohup from within a vanilla ssh session.

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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by graywh on Monday September 28, 2009 @04:45PM (#849199)

There's also disown, for that matter, but how can you re-connect to the process?

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Re:GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal by silentbicycle on Monday September 28, 2009 @03:26PM (#849037)

> run something big - say a job that would take 5 hours

The monitor function can also notify you when there's activity or 30 sec. silence in a window, too. :)

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