Posted on 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@
Posted on 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 …
