On 12/12/06, mike.redan at bell.ca <mike.redan at bell.ca> wrote: > > > For example, if i do run it with the & at the end it does what I want, > yet obviously (to my knowledge) you can't get back to the subshell > without killing it and restarting it. I have looked into the "screen" > shell utility, which for the most part does what I needed, however after > a few days the session had disappeared and I was not able to get back to > it from another machine/ssh session. > > > Are there any other options? > > screen works pretty well, I have some screen sessions that are more than > month old. When you connect from antoher machine, what command do you > type? It should be: > > screen -r -x > > That forces a reconnect, even if someone else is already connected. > > > > On a side note: this is a nice way to collaborate on some work between a > few people who are not at the same physical location. Everyone SSH's in > to a machine, one person runs screen, the others run screen -r -x. you > are now all staring at the same terminal and can all work together. > Handy for teaching people. > > Cheers, > Mike Ah ok, the tutorial I had read said screen -R upon reconnecting. I will try your way and test it further. Good note for the shared sessions too! Dustin