session recovery on change of IP

[Christian Vogel]

Hi John,

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 02:32:03PM +0100, John Sutton wrote:
> I can't see how using screen gets me any further?  Surely screen just
> allows multiple sessions multiplexed into one tty stream (badly put but
> I think I know what I mean ;-).  End result will be that *all* the
> sessions get broken on a change of IP?  

When screen get's a sig-HUP it will detach the running screen-sessions.

Later you can log in to this machine again and issue 'screen -r' which will
reattach your session.

Of course you can also detach the sessions yourself by typing <Ctrl-A D>.

	Chris

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