Screen

I just found a nice method to invoke screen automatically if after login via SSH. So you don’t have to manually start it first. Put the following at the end of your ~/.bashrc # Auto-screen invocation. see: http://taint.org/wk/RemoteLoginAutoScreen # if we're coming from a remote SSH connection, in an interactive session # then automatically put us into a screen(1) session. Only try once # -- if $STARTED_SCREEN is set, don't try it again, to avoid looping # if screen fails for some reason. if [ "$PS1" != "" -a "${STARTED_SCREEN:-x}" = x -a "${SSH_TTY:-x}" != x ] then STARTED_SCREEN=1 ; export STARTED_SCREEN [ -d $HOME/lib/screen-logs ] || mkdir -p $HOME/lib/screen-logs sleep 1 screen -RR && exit 0 # normally, execution of this rc script ends here... echo "Screen failed! continuing with normal bash startup" fi # [end of auto-screen snippet] If you want more details and some additional tricks just go to http://taint.org/wk/RemoteLoginAutoScreen.