[ut2004] nohup or screen for Linux ut2004 server?

ut2004 at agno.net ut2004 at agno.net
Thu Aug 26 14:28:42 EDT 2004


On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 06:18:25PM +0000, Pollywog wrote:
> On 08/26/2004 05:44 pm, Josh wrote:
> > nohup ignores the HUP signal so the process doesn't die effectivly
> > making it a daemon. screen runs the process inside a sort of virtual
> > terminal so you can disconnect  it from a terminal and reconnect it to
> > another terminal instead of dieing when the shell exits.. Also very
> > useful for irc clients.
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> When I have tried to reconnect to the virtual terminal, it did not work, that 
> is why I thought it no better than a HUP.  Is anyone else able to reconnect 
> after disconnecting a screen session for the UT2004 server?

I just tried it--it seems to work.  Nobody connected to the server, but
it worked fine.  I've only ever had problems with screen and curses
based programs.





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