Monday, June 1, 2009

Screen - Manages multiple sessions on one terminal

From: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/screen-manages-multiple-sessions-on-one-terminal.html

This tutorial explain how to use screen and screen profiles in your ubuntu server.

Screen is a program that allows you to have multiple logins on one terminal. It is useful in situations where you are telnetted into a machine or connected via a dumb terminal and want more than just one login.
screen-profiles includes a set of profiles for the GNU screen window manager. These profiles are quite useful on server machines which are not running a graphical desktop. The ’screen’ command provides a number of advanced features are not necessarily exposed in the default profile. These profiles provide features such as status bars, clocks, notifiers (reboot-required, updates-available), etc. The profile-switcher allows users to quickly switch their .screenrc to any of the available profiles.

update-notifier-common provides a more efficient and standard mechanism for calculating the number of updates available in the status panel.

Install screen on Ubuntu server

sudo apt-get install screen screen-profiles screen-profiles-extras

This will complete the installation.

Note:- If you are using Jaunty all the above packages already installed in your server

Using Screen this link...

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