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Can you say the same about your workstation? Can you say the same about your power grid? Can you say the same about your internet connection? Screen/tmux/dta
by bmelton 15y ago
Can you say the same about your workstation? Can you say the same about your power grid? Can you say the same about your internet connection?
Screen/tmux/dtach are so trivial to implement and use and make the connection much more bulletproof that if you foresee there ever being a possibility that you might disconnect and lose work, then you should probably be using one of them.
- X-Istence 15y agoThis is my workstation at home: %uptime 11:49AM up 143 days, 17:08, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 My internet connection has been up for the last 65 days (yay for actually logging data). I don't keep remote connections to servers as I do all my work on my workstation and push when needed at which point my servers automatically pick up the changes and put them into {testing,staging,production} depending on where I push.
- scott_s 15y agoI think you misunderstood me. I'm the person who said how great Screen is at the top of this thread. My uptime comment was in response to someone who said "the only downside is that it cant persist through a machine restart." That's not much of a downside for me because the machines I have my Screen sessions on are down so rarely - literally, less than half a dozen times a year. In other words, I use Screen when I connect to remote machines. Those machines go down rarely.
- bmelton 15y agoYou are 100% correct. My apologies. My point though, which I'm sure you'll agree with, was to preempt the idea that "my machines don't crash, so I don't need it."