Jun 152012
 
Using Screen with Raspberry Pi to avoid leaving SSH sessions open

Using Screen with Raspberry Pi to avoid leaving SSH sessions open (Debian) Tested on Debian Squeeze, Wheezy Beta and Raspbian distros. You may remember from the Get_iplayer installation instructions that I recommended not running the FFMPEG compile via ssh. The reason for this was because when you do something in ssh, if you close the ssh session it kills the process – game over (and that compile takes 3.5 hours). Well I just found out about an excellent little program called screen, which enables you to run processes within a “terminal tty instance”. This allows […more…]