David C. Rankin wrote:
Marcin Floryan wrote:
On 17/01/2008, Randall R Schulz <rschulz@sonic.net> wrote:
In addition to Jim C.'s suggestions, you can also start an interactive shell via su (or sudo) and then use the built-in "suspend" command to go back to the non-root shell from which it was invoked. Then you can re-enter it using the usual job-control commands. The shell will only honor a "suspend" command when it's not a login shell, so you don't have to worry about suspending a shell with no other shell "above" it to handle the suspended process state.
I find using screen even more comfortable. You can easily have several sessions open and switch between them and keep being logged in as root. It works well with SSH access too.
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Alright, looks like I have to add a few tools to my tool box. With regard to screen, what advantages does it have over running konsole with multiple sessions? I've looked at the man page, but can't figure out what the advantage would be over multiple tabs in konsole and using shift+rt or shift+lt arrows to move between screens. Marcin, what are your thoughts?
Your hands never leave the keyboard's home row. This software dates back to the ASCII-terminal era, and therefore can be controlled ENTIRELY from a standard 48-key (pre-IBM PC) keyboard, so there's need for the use of cursor keys, home/end/page-up/page-down keys, let alone a mouse....and with very little memory overhead, even compared to konsole. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org