[tantalor]

The very first thing I do whenever I ssh,

  $ screen -x

If you don't do this or something similar, then perhaps you should start now.

https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/

[mankyd]

I've always use `-D -R`. I just checked `man screen` and it actually states "This is the author's favorite."

[szszrk]

That's my thing as well. Actually screen -rdU - U from old times when weird text chat apps were used with my weird non-utf locales.

Tried tmux a few times, but I'm not gonna re-learn everything every 15 years, come on! Also luckily when I switched jobs all admins used and installed screen everywhere, so that was an easy fit.

[lhoff]

That doesn't really help when transfering a file. That was one of the user cases where the author had problem with.

[tantalor]

Yes it would because the file transfer would continue inside the screen session instead of dying with the ssh session.

[monocasa]

I think they meant they were using scp to transfer files from the remote computer to the local one.

[tantalor]

That wouldn't be an "Idle SSH Session".

[jimmaswell]

Or keeping an SSH session open for proxy tunneling when PuTTy is only capable of automatically reconnecting on certain disconnects and not others for some stupid reason.

[lazyjones]

rsync over ssh solves this... Just start it again and transfer the remaining part.