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

From: Will Trillich (will_at_serensoft.com)
Date: 08/15/04

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    okay, it's a bit of hyperbole. but MAN i don't remember what
    life was like a few weeks ago without "screen"!

    there i was, minding my own business...

    i noticed my /home partition filling up, so i started a laborious
    copy sendnig the files to another box across town so i could
    reswizzle my partitions -- and once that got started i noticed
    the real culprit was not all these images, but .xsession-errors
    which was 2.3gb all by itself!

    tons of repeated error messages in there -- so, i kill my X
    session (nice logout, albeit rudely closing xterm windows which
    were running the screen sessions) and i try logging back in...

    lockup! X won't budge! KDE (i know, i know) is hung!

    i switch (alt-f1) to console, log in, kill a bothersome process
    or two, try "screen -r" and POOF my file transfers are STILL
    GOING (along with a mutt session -- this one :) -- and several
    vim sessions) so i switch (alt-f7) back to X. all is well now,
    apparently.

    and now i've got 50% free now that the 2.3gb file is back to a
    measly 15k.

    i crank up konsole, enter "screen -D -R" and POOF my file
    transfers are STILL GOING, happy as a lark/clam/moi!

    now i've got a kde-startup issue to iron out, sure, but my
    transfers are as hunky and as dory as can be! 

    ---
okay, this is no big deal for an rsync transfer to get
interrupted. it'll pick right back up where it left off, too
(more properly, it'll send the data necessary to change the
target to match the source).
it's the principle of the thing -- the process is still chugging
along, despite a logout, despite login troubles, whether at
console or within X. imagine if i'd been running something
IMPORTANT!
very, very sexy, this "screen" thing. very!
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