[Cialug] Window manager for servers

[David Champion]

Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 3:03 PM, David Champion <dchampion at visionary.com> wrote:
>   
>> I pretty much always use screen when I'm going to do anything more
>> complicated than a few 1-liners in an ssh session.
>>     
>
> So you start screen manually when you want to use it?
>
> ssh hostname
> screen
>
> or ssh hostname screen
>
> I've heard some chatter about pros and cons of having screen start
> automatically in various ways.
>   

I generally start it manually, with the exception of the cases I 
mentioned where I'm starting it from the init scripts.

-dc