Re: I need a screen saver

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From: Yossi Kreinin
Subject: Re: I need a screen saver
Date: 14:30 on 15 Jan 2007
Peter da Silva wrote:
>> Would configuring screen to store this file on rostov instead of my 
>> home directory help matters (make the listing of dead screens correct, 
>> make screen -wipe work, make the life of my screen sessions longer in 
>> case my machine crashes)?
> 
> 
> Oh, fuck yes. That's the problem. Don't EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER stick 
> any local-session-state information on anything but a local drive. The 
> default for screen is "/tmp", and if "/tmp" is NFS-mounted then odds are 
> good you're going to take it up the rear entry somewhere or other 
> anyway. NFS is a source of so much hate even if you're just sticking 
> plain files on it. Named pipes ... crikey.
> 
> If for some reason you're running a screen session on a dickless 
> workstation ... oh, christ ... just don't. Just ... don't ...
> 

Oh no, in fact one of the reasons I find these servers appealing is for their 
quite large, um, disks. And /tmp is not NFS-mounted - that is a violation of the 
international law. So I guess I'll set $SCREENDIR to /tmp and see what happens.

As to generic screen hate, I strongly prefer xterm as my terminal, in particular 
because of the history you get with Shift + Page Up. And no, I don't like to use 
script to get a log file full of escape sequences to grep through.

But a bad terminal is better than a dead terminal. And detached screen sessions 
have the huge benefit of /not/ changing the window title when brain-crippled 
tcsh snippets running somewhere down the guts of something try to do so. So you 
can run a lot of processes on a lot of machines without the KDE icons flickering 
all the time. So overall, screen is a big win.
There's stuff above here

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