Re: suspend a progr.,logout,login&restart it again

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From: Robert Sturrock
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1993 13:06

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mcclure@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Michael MCCLURE) writes:

>screen is EVIL!

>it will probably end up using more CPU time &
>stuffing the users up on the system than running the
>originial program during the day!!!1

I personally think it's a damned useful piece of software which I would
not consider being without, but anyway ..

>it totally stuffed our utmp file to boot
>when we had the accursed thing here :)

I believe if you install it setuid-root, it correctly manages /etc/utmp.

-rob

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