Re: 'screen' saves life, all in a day's work

From: Bojan Baros (bojan_at_blis.dyndns.org)
Date: 08/19/04

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    Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:42:05 -0400 (EDT)
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    John Summerfield said:
    > Will Trillich wrote:
    >
    >>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!
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >
    > You can also start it up at, say, boot time running, for example,
    > user-mode-linux or Hercules.
    >
    >
    Speaking of screen...

    How can I adjust the scrollback buffer? I actually use my box only
    through ssh sessions, and I tried scrollback xxx, but I get 'scrollback:
    window required' error message, and it then defaults to 100 or so...

    Bojan 

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