On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 12:47, Toby Cubitt
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 07:44:40AM -0000, Michael Witten wrote:
I just lost a lot of computation when a long-running program of mine was unceremoniously destroyed by xmonad.
XMonad aside, I always run long-running computations inside GNU screen, to avoid any risk of accidentally killing them by logging out, or killing the terminal, or other such pitfalls (the probability of which mysteriously seems to increase exponentially the longer and more important the computation is!)
If your computations are command-line programs (most are), you might find it useful.
Indeed! My computation was indeed being performed by a command-line program, and as soon as I had committed my lamentable mistake, GNU screen was the very first thing that crossed my mind. Fortunately, I *was* using GNU screen for something even more important: IRC chatting :-)