Re: 'screen' saves life, all in a day's work
John Summerfield said:
> 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.
>
>
Speaking of screen...
How can I adjust the scrollback buffer? I actually use my box only
through ssh sessions, and I tried scrollback xxx, but I get 'scrollback:
window required' error message, and it then defaults to 100 or so...
Bojan
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