Start screen...  do your stuff.   Use the ssh trigger key to kill your
connection (a tilde '~', then a period '.' after a new line.  I.e.
'<Enter>', '~.' will terminate your connection)  Later, when you get in
you type in screen -R [I prefer screen -x instead] but that's it.

js


On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 15:00, Justin Ellison wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>       Does anyone have some real-world examples of how they use the screen
> command?  It looks handy, but the man page eludes me on how it works. 
> Basically, is there a way I can ssh from work to home, fire up screen on
> the home box, start a kernel compile, exit from the screen, and ssh back
> into it later - without interrupting the build?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Justin
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