On Mon, 18 May 2009 23:07:41 -0700 James Mcphee wrote: > Screen is the greatest tool EVER!!! A CLI window manager! I mean, DUDE!!! I work from home 3 days a week. Most of the time, in the morning and in the mid afternoon, i have re-connect my vpn 10 - 15 times in as many minutes! REALLY bothersome. I say this, because I consider screen the essential tool for everything else I do. When my vpn goes down while I am in the middle of something, all I have to do is reconnect my vpn, login to the server that I was doing work on, and do a screen -rd and I am RIGHT BACK to what I was doing! The other reason I use screen is for very long running commands. Case in point, I was converting a large cvs repository over to a clearcase vob, and I did the effort in a screen. It took a few days to get all the cvs repository down on the clearcase server, and about a week to do a clearfsimport to get the old cvs data in the new vob. screen allowed me to detach and let it run for those 2 weeks. I couldn't live without it. Jerry --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss