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My GNU screen stores its sessions in the /tmp directory.
That means that after a reboot, all sessions are lost:
$ screen -list
No Sockets found in /tmp/uscreens/S-dehmann.
How can I tell it to store them in a specific directory in my home directory, where they won't be lost so easily?
From the manual:
The "socket directory" defaults either to $HOME/.screen or simply to
/tmp/screens or preferably to /var/run/screen chosen at compile-time...
By setting the environment variable SCREENDIR you can change the default behavior.
