[colug-432] Search Command History

[Pat Collins]

On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 19:32:18 -0500 Brian Miller <bnmille at gmail.com> wrote

> I would get into the habit of running "screen" whenever you make an SSH
> connection to your server.  That way, when your connection gets dropped,
> you can re-connect, and run "screen -r" to pick up where you left off.
> It's really handy if you need to kick off a long running process.  You
> can start the process at work, disconnect, go home, eat dinner, log in
> through the VPN, and then move on to the next step.
> 

Call me old fashioned, but nohup is installed on most systems and is the best
way if you want to run a long process and not leave your shell open.   On a
production server, the less dependencies I have to install (or beg to get
installed) the better.

If I'm doing critical work, I script what I'm going to do, verify that it is
going to work (yikes testing) and then run the script with nohup.   This way my
work becomes reproducible and I have some idea about what I've done without
having to rely on command history.


Pat