General Linux?

[Ian Malone]

Knute Johnson wrote:
>>>> Knute Johnson wrote:
>>>>> Is it possible to ssh to my computer, start a command line program, 
>>>>> exit ssh and then come back later and ssh to the same command line 
>>>>> program?  How would I do that exactly?
>>>>>

>>>>
>>>> man screen
>>>>

> 
> Well, I've got another hitch, I'm using PuTTY for an ssh client from 
> my WinXP box.  <CTRL-ALT-F?> just rings the bell and prints [1?~.  
> Will it work with PuTTY or only with a Linux version of ssh?
> 

What you want is 'Ctl-a d' to detach then 'screen -r' to
reattach.  (And possibly 'screen -l' to get a list of IDs
if there's more than one.)  It can do much cleverer things,
but I've usually found that's enough and I have used it with
PuTTY.

You could always tunnel VNC over SSH of course, but that
may be a bit heavy duty depending on your purposes.  It's
certainly more bandwidth hungry.

-- 
imalone