Articles tagged with gnu

1. Mac OS X terminal and GNU screen scrollback

   Posted on October 11, 2011 in system_administration

   If you're a frequent user of GNU screen on your Mac, you are probably tired of using ctrl-a [ to enter scrollback mode. Adding the following lines to the .screenrc configuration file in your home directory in order to scroll with your mouse:

   defscrollback 5000
   termcapinfo xterm* ti@:te@
   

2. Killing Old popper Processes in Solaris 8

   Posted on September 19, 2011 in System Administration

   I've dealt with a few servers that have long lived popper (POP3) processes. These processes should be closed once the connection is closed, but they occasionally hang around. Once they get in this state, they will never close on their own. After a while, hundreds of these processes will just …