How to configure the Screen application

How to configure and run the application Screen in your shell account.

Note: This environment configuration is now automatically implemented for all new client accounts.  This article pertains to legacy accounts that do not yet have this configuration implemented.

# cd $HOME
# mkdir .screens
# chmod 700 .screens
# export SCREENDIR=$HOME/.screens
# echo 'export SCREENDIR=$HOME/.screens' >> ~/.bash_profile


# screen

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