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The very first thing I do whenever I ssh, $ screen -x If you don't do this or something similar, then perhaps you should start now. https://www.gnu.org/sof

• mankyd 6y ago
  I've always use `-D -R`. I just checked `man screen` and it actually states "This is the author's favorite."
• lhoff 6y ago
  That doesn't really help when transfering a file. That was one of the user cases where the author had problem with.
  • tantalor 6y ago
    Yes it would because the file transfer would continue inside the screen session instead of dying with the ssh session.
    • monocasa 6y ago
      I think they meant they were using scp to transfer files from the remote computer to the local one.
      • tantalor 6y ago
        That wouldn't be an "Idle SSH Session".
  • jimmaswell 6y ago
    Or keeping an SSH session open for proxy tunneling when PuTTy is only capable of automatically reconnecting on certain disconnects and not others for some stupid reason.
  • lazyjones 6y ago
    rsync over ssh solves this... Just start it again and transfer the remaining part.
• szszrk 6y ago
  That's my thing as well. Actually screen -rdU - U from old times when weird text chat apps were used with my weird non-utf locales. Tried tmux a few times, but I'm not gonna re-learn everything every 15 years, come on! Also luckily when I switched jobs all admins used and installed screen everywhere, so that was an easy fit.