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Re: "screen" saves life, all in a day's work



Will Trillich wrote:

okay, this is no big deal for an rsync transfer to get
interrupted. it'll pick right back up where it left off, too
(more properly, it'll send the data necessary to change the
target to match the source).

it's the principle of the thing -- the process is still chugging
along, despite a logout, despite login troubles, whether at
console or within X. imagine if i'd been running something
IMPORTANT!

very, very sexy, this "screen" thing. very!


You can also start it up at, say, boot time running, for example, user-mode-linux or Hercules.



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John

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