"use screen" to "Pick up a shell session after ssh timeout"

From: Will Trillich (will_at_serensoft.com)
Date: 08/09/04

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    On Thu, Jul 08 at 04:15PM +0200, Dennis Stosberg wrote:
    > Sure, this is not a solution this time. But maybe it is a solution
    > for the next time:
    >
    > $ ssh user@remotehost
    > Welcome to remotehost
    > $ screen
    > $ long_task
    >
    > When you press C-a C-d now, you detach yourself from your screen
    > session, which means that long_task will continue to run using a
    > virtual terminal simulated by screen.
    >
    > Log out, go for lunch.
    >
    > When you return, you can rejoin your previously opened screen
    > session:
    >
    > $ ssh user@remotehost
    > Welcome to remotehost
    > $ screen -x
    >
    > And zap! You are exactly where you came from before you detached
    > from your old session. And this is just a little bit of what screen
    > can do for you. I found it to be very useful and quite addictive.

    screen's architect recommends

            screen -D -R

    to reattach to existing sessions (or spawn a new session if
    there's none to reattach to), whereas

            screen -x

    will JOIN an active session -- that is, you can have several
    keyboards/monitors looking at the exact same session; input and
    output are available to all participants (which is great for
    narrated support sessions, and can be misused to give close
    friends a severe but entertaining case of apoplexy :).

    screen is
      ____ __ _____ _________ ____ ___ ___
     / __ `/ | /| / / _ \/ ___/ __ \/ __ `__ \/ _ \
    / /_/ /| |/ |/ / __(__ ) /_/ / / / / / / __/
    \__,_/ |__/|__/\___/____/\____/_/ /_/ /_/\___/ 

    -- 
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DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #117 from Adam Scriven <scriven@lore.com>
:
Here's how you THAW MESSAGES FROZEN VIA EXIM: Just cd to the
/var/spool/exim/msglog directory, and run
	# exim -Mt *
That should thaw any message that's pending. For more dire
action, you can try
	# exim -Mrm <message-id-here>
to actually obliterate a troublesome message. See exim.org (or
/usr/share/doc/exim/manual.html/*) for more details.
Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
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