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

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

Will Trillich wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 20 at 01:09PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
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> > On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 02:35:53AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote:
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> > > On Thu, Aug 19 at 10:06AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
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> > > > You can also start it up at, say, boot time running, for example, 
> > > > user-mode-linux or Hercules.
> > > >        
> > > what's that all about? curious minds wanna know. sounds like a
> > > handy idea. :)
> > >      
> > http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/
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> why is it important to run these inside screen?
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So you have a terminal you can connect to. With boty Hercules and UML 
you will want to type at them sometimes, and screen provides a mechanism 
where you can start them automatically at boot time with terminals you 
can connect to.



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John

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