Theovon writes "I just built a high-end quad-core Linux PC hallowed


managed server sale $79plesk to number-crunching. Its job is to sit in the corner with no keyboard, mouse, or monitor and do nothing but compute (genetic algorithms, neural nets, and other research). My issue is that I would like to have existent like steadfast terminal sessions. I've studious using Xvnc in a flat headless cast (some useful salvo here, here, here, and here). However, for most of my uses, this is overkill. Total waste of memory and compute time. However, if I decided to run FPGA synthesis os under WINE, this will become necessary. Unfortunately, I can't quite figure out how to get enduring X11 session where I'm automatically logged in (or can stay logged in), while avowal enough confidence that I don't mind opening the VNC port on my firewall (with a changed port number, of course). I'm also going to check out Xpra, but I've only just heard about it and have no idea how to use it. For the short term, the main need is just terminals. I'd like to be able to connect and see how being is going. One option is to just run things with nohup and then login and 'tail -f' to watch the log file. I've also heard of screen, but I'm unfamiliar with it. Have other Slashdot users encountered this situation? What did you use? What's hard, what's easy, and what works well?"

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