General Linux?

[Les Mikesell]

Ian Malone wrote:

>>>>>> Is it possible to ssh to my computer, start a command line 
>>>>>> program, exit ssh and then come back later and ssh to the same 
>>>>>> command line program?  How would I do that exactly?
>>>>>>
> 
>>>>>
>>>>> man screen
>>>>>
> 
>>
>> Well, I've got another hitch, I'm using PuTTY for an ssh client from 
>> my WinXP box.  <CTRL-ALT-F?> just rings the bell and prints [1?~.  
>> Will it work with PuTTY or only with a Linux version of ssh?
>>
> 
> What you want is 'Ctl-a d' to detach then 'screen -r' to
> reattach.  (And possibly 'screen -l' to get a list of IDs
> if there's more than one.)  It can do much cleverer things,
> but I've usually found that's enough and I have used it with
> PuTTY.
> 
> You could always tunnel VNC over SSH of course, but that
> may be a bit heavy duty depending on your purposes.  It's
> certainly more bandwidth hungry.

Freenx and the free cross-platform NX client is the way to go for remote 
access to a GUI desktop - although the X vnc module can be handy if the 
desktop you want is the one already running on your console.

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   Les Mikesell
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