[YLUG] ssh to York

[Patrick Dupre]

On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Chunky Kibbles wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:24:03PM +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote:
>>> I'd have to say, I do find this to be more of a "bug" than a
>>> "feature".  I find my SSH sessions regularly freezing, because
>>> I do tend to do non-computer work and come back to find it's
>>> frozen up.  SSH doesn't even recognise that it has been
>>> disconnected for quite some time, leaving the terminal unusable.
>>> This happens to me quite a lot throughout the day; if I hadn't
>>> discovered GNU screen, I'd be rather miffed by now!
>
> It always amazes me how little screen gets used. It manages to
> simultaneously create and kill an entire software category, glorious
> stuff.
>
>> I never really experience a freezing of the terminal, just a freezing of
>> my interface before it just goes away because the lost of the connection.
>> Unfortunately, I need a X session, is their an equivalent of
>> screen for a X session ?
>
> Commonly known as vnc.
>
> I've been using nomachine's NX at work, and that's much better than vnc,
> but requires administrative voodoo on the server - you can run a vncserver
> without any problem at all.
>
> Gary (-;
>
I also tried VCN in the past but gave up because it was messing up the
routing. My machine was not recognized anymore on the internet.

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