From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 23 8:39:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from disavowed.broken.net (ns.broken.net [199.233.135.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E20137B479 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 08:39:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ian@localhost) by disavowed.broken.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA01539; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 08:39:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 08:39:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Ian Struble To: Roop Nanuwa Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'Stayalive' telnet session... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You should check out screen(ports collection misc/screen). It is just what you are looking for. Ian On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Roop Nanuwa wrote: > This may seem like a wierd question but is there any way to setup a telnet > session to stay alive even if the connection is severed? > > A typical problem scenario is this: > > 1) telnet into FreeBSD gateway (from a Win98 box) to do some work > that takes a lot of time > 2) windows crashes > 3) restart windows and start a new telnet session, log in again, > attempt to resume what I was doing before the crash > > > What I want to be able to do is have the initial login stay in session, so > that when I reconnect, it's still in the state before it disconnected... > > Has anyone heard of a way to do this? > > TIA > RSN > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message