in reply to Killing clones for fun and profit

Interesting... Another solution to this is to run screen on the remote machine. I highly recommend it as a solution to buggy client machines, or dropped dial-up connections. It allows you to resume a terminal session exactly where you left it before you dropped off the machine.

-Blake

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Re: Re: Killing clones for fun and profit
by Hero Zzyzzx (Curate) on Jul 06, 2001 at 02:58 UTC

    Screen is the best!! I use it all the time and it's never let me down. I made a mini-tutorial, which includes a pretty basic overview of screen here.