Re: re-attaching a terminal to a disconnected process

[thb@regioservice.de (Thomas Baetzler)]

Frank Sergeant wrote:
:I'm thinking about a setup like this: our application would
:run on a Linux box at the central office, one instance (process)
:for each user. [...]

:What happens to the remote user's process on the central Linux
:box if the connection between the remote machine and
:the central office's Linux box is broken?  [...]
:I suppose the process would be killed, right?

:Is there a way to tell the process to keep running even if
:its terminal is disconnected, and then later re-attach a
:terminal to it, [...]

Have your users use screen - this gives them many virtual terminals
over a single telnet connection, plus all you've asked above. 
 
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