Comments on: Using screen as your login shell

By: qmega

qmega — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 10:03:47 +0000

The only problem with this is that if screen fails for some reason you're pretty much screwed. Another option is to add

screen -R && exit

or something similar to the end of your .profile, so that if screen fails to start for some reason (wrong perms on screen dir or something) you stay in your bash shell and you can fix it.

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By: geekscrap

geekscrap — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:53:15 +0000

C'mon, treat it as pseudo-code

By: blueben

blueben — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:51:00 +0000

Now if only I used zsh

By: geekscrap

geekscrap — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:44:18 +0000

@Nick: I'm happy you enjoyed

@blueben: yep, that's true. I've found a tip on how to solve this problem here: http://alan.lamielle.net/2009/03/09/environment…

By: blueben

blueben — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:46:34 +0000

A catch: If you use SSH ForwardAgent, you will lose your connection to the agent from within a screen session when you drop and later reconnect. It's obvious in hindsight, but frustrating before you figure it out.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:25:41 +0000

Fantastic! You've changed how I login to my server forever!