LUG: Screen command video & related question - Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:36:59 -0400

Subject : LUG: Screen command video & related question

From : "Daniel Underwood" <daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]>

Date : Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:36:59 -0400

While the first stop for help should almost always be the man pages,
some commands are so unfamiliar that you may not realize their purpose
until you see them demonstrated. For me, "screen" was such a command.
There is a great (and thankfully short) video on the LinuxJournal
website demonstrating the screen command:

<http://www.linuxjournal.com/video/transfer-your-terminal-screen>

Ok, so many of you may be thinking: yeah, yeah, I know about screen. But
I sent this email to extend the question that originally pointed me
toward the screen command. To the point, what about continuing
non-terminal applications? Does anyone have any ideas? (Note that this
is of course in the context of remote logins.)

For example, suppose I am running an optimzation routine on Matlab, and
there is an accompanying 3D density plot providing real-time information
on the progress of the routine. If I have to logout of my ssh session, I
do not know how to prevent the Matlab process from hanging-up, being
killed, or whichever signal the process receives.

Any ideas?
--
Daniel Underwood
North Carolina State University
Graduate Student - Operations Research
email: daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]
phone: XXX.302.3291
web: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~djunderw/

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