I discovered "screen" was also available in the NLSU2 feed.It can be installed via the IPKG system. Nice that it is available.

With screen you can start up multiple sessions not directly attached to the terminal you are logged in with.

Meaning: if you have a certain task or script running and you close your terminal window then normally the process will also stop, which can be quite unhandy e.g. during an ftp upload session.

With screen you simply start your process via "screen process", then close your computer and go to bed

Later on you log in again and via the screen -ls command you can view all the running screens and via screen -r <screenname> you can then re-attach to a screen to see the status.

Obviously there is a lot more to it, see the man pages here. (I don’t know if the nlsu2 version support everything).

http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/09/27/a-guide-to-gnu-screen/

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