LJDT: Taking Advantage of Screen
01-Jul-2009 03:29 PM
Last week I was asked if there was a way to start an application at the
command line and later come back to it from somewhere else. Normally in Linux/Unix (*nix) it is possible to 'background' a process and then return to it later on but that's only if you are still in the same session where the process was sent to the background. This is useful to have something run while you do other things but reconnecting to this session cannot be done with just the
shell. Thankfully 'screen' is on Linux systems by default (all of them I've used anyway) and as a result, Linux Just Does That.
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LJDT: Taking Advantage of Screen
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