The big advantage of screen is you can use the terminal from anywhere. If the remote terminal crashes and you were in screen, you can log back in and reattach. Then pick up right where you were. Also if you have an xterm or vc open at home running screen and you logon remotely. You can detach the screen process from the local terminal and attach it to the remote terminal. Joseph Key ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Taylor" <dante at plethora.net> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 3:36 PM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Backgrounding processes? > Why do so many people seem inclined to use screen when your > typical Linux installation has 6(SIX!) VC's right at your fingertips. > (ALT-F1 through ALT-F6) > If that isn't enough and you don't want X, you can go all the way > up to 24 just off the keyboard by spawning getty's or directly > spawning processes on alternate VC's (another way to background it BTW). > > Besides, if you logout you loose the screen process so _that_ doesn't > really answer his question. > > Using nohup (as previously mentioned and described) will do the job > quite nicely, and I recall having some luck with simple backgrounding > with stdout and stderr redirected. > > > On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Eric Stanley wrote: > >