On Wed, 27 Mar 2019, Russell Senior wrote:
"Screen is often used when a network connection to the terminal is unreliable, as a dropped network connection typically terminates all programs the user was running (child processes of the login session), due to the session ending and sending a "hangup" signal (SIGHUP <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGHUP>) to all the child processes.
Yes, I've used screen to keep a process running after I've logged off the system, but screen is apparently not a terminal multiplexer. My web search for tmux tells me it's a tool that supports multiple running applications on a single terminal. This suggests -- to me -- that it provides console services analagous to what a GUI desktop environment does. Which is why I asked under what circumstances would it be useful for those of us working on a single host or local network. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
