Screen on Lead DevOpshttps://lead-devops.blackdevhub.online/en/tags/screen/Recent content in Screen on Lead DevOpsHugoenMon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000GNU Screen: sessions that survive an SSH drophttps://lead-devops.blackdevhub.online/en/posts/gnu-screen/Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://lead-devops.blackdevhub.online/en/posts/gnu-screen/<p>A long <code>apt upgrade</code>, a migration, a build — then the laptop sleeps. SSH dies, the process gets SIGHUP and dies with it. <strong>GNU Screen</strong> keeps the terminal on the server: disconnect, come back, the work is still there.</p> <p>It is not a <code>nohup</code> replacement and not “another SSH”. It is a multiplexer: named sessions, several windows inside one, a shared session for two people. On older RHEL/Debian boxes <code>screen</code> is often already installed when <code>tmux</code> is not.</p>