[Beowulf] Users abusing screen

[Gregory Matthews]

Prentice Bisbal wrote:
> Using nohup was exactly the advice I gave to one of my users yesterday.
> Not sure if he'll use it. 'man' is a very difficult program to learn,
> from what I understand.

our experience of ppl using nohup without really thinking it through is 
eventually filling the partition with an enormous nohup.out file.

GREG

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