Installing Screen in Centos 4.4

Screen lets you have multiple virtual window in one physical terminal. Screen lets you detach and reattach to your virtual windows, which is good if you are compiling remotely.

Download the latest Screen RPM

http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=screen

Install Screen dependencies

#yum -y install ncurses-devel texinfo pam-devel libtool

Install Screen

#rpmbuild --rebuild screen-4.0.2-5.src.rpm
#rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/screen-4.0.2-5.src.rpm

Show Screen

#screen -ls

Create Screen Session

#screen

Create Screen Virtual window

press ctrl+a,c

Change between Screens

press ctrl+a, 0 Session 0
press ctrl+a, 1 Session 1
press ctrl+a, 2 Session 2

To resume a Screen session

#screen -r session name