Re: persistent xterm sessions

["Jarod Wilson" <user=74@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 15:42 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: 
> On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 15:37 -0400, John Abreau wrote: 
> > 
> > Gordon Marx wrote: 
> > > On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Boland, John 
> > > <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> > >   
> > >> the local shells would remain running on the vnc server.  there would be 
> > >> nothing running on the vnc client. 
> > >>     
> > > 
> > > Yes, I understand what VNC is. 
> > > 
> > > Tom wants his _local_ xterm (or xterm-alike) sessions to persist 
> > > across a reboot. 
> > > 
> > > Gordon 
> > >   
> > 
> > Across a *reboot* ?!?! There's no way local processes can 
> > continue to run while the underlyung machine reboots. 
> > 
> > It makes sense to think it may be possible for the xterm 
> > sessions to persist across an exit and relaunch of X11, but 
> > not across a reboot of the machine. 
> 
> I have a thought... Serial console connections, managed by a console 
> manager, which lets you reconnect to the serial console session, plays 
> back log of prior stuff, etc... 
> 
> http://home.gna.org/conman/
> 
> Was quite popular at Linux Networx. I even packaged it up and maintain 
> the package in Fedora and RHEL now, since I still use it for some of my 
> own needs.