Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan not emailing me

[Gerald L]

Beartooth wrote:

> 	One of the people on VTLUUG is singing the praises of an app 
> called simply screen; I suspect, looking at the config file before I even 
> read his stuff, that it's pretty well over my head; but he's right about 
> one thing -- it's already installed in my distro (Fedora 10). Whaddaya 
> think?

'screen' is not an xterm. It is a detachable, multitasking, tty intended 
to be run inside another term or tty.

The reason most people sig it's praises is because of the "detach" 
feature. You can run screen, then run a program inside the screen 
session. Then, you can detach screen, log out, go home (or to the 
office) log in to another machine, connect to the original by ssh, run 
screen inside the ssh session and be right back where you left it when 
you logged out of the original session.

I have a 'screen' running 24/7 that has multiple pty's open running my 
IRC client, a terminal based torrent client, a root (su -) terminal, and 
a couple others for various things. This is all running in a single 
xterm window but if I break X fiddling around with things I can kill X, 
restart it, and recover that screen session with all of those things 
still running fine. Or, if I REALLY break X I can run screen at the 
command line outside of X and have them all running fine (so I can 
quickly jump on IRC and ask if anybody knows what bonehead move I pulled 
to trash my X setup).

Gerald