hoping the screen debacle is done

it looks like they unbroke -L for 'screen' tool, such that it no longer requires a log file parameter (which had broken just everything).  and now the log file parm is still available, but you jam it together with the -L flag.

diff --git a/scripts/opensim/opensim_utils.sh b/scripts/opensim/opensim_utils.sh
index 48291e64266dabce1dc190c5c2923a5ff07ff6d5..d9d9d654784b9732a893c233486cced77a157005 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/opensim/opensim_utils.sh
+++ b/scripts/opensim/opensim_utils.sh
@@ -37,8 +37,9 @@ function launch_screen()
   app_name="$1"; shift
   echo "$(date_stringer ' '): starting $screen_name now..."
 #hmmm: version check for if we're using old screen?  this -L change was a mistake though for the screen project owners on ubuntu.
-local boguslog=/tmp/screen_junk.log
-  screen -L $boguslog -S "$screen_name" -d -m nice -n $NICENESS_LEVEL mono "$app_name" 
+#local boguslog=$HOME/screen_junk_$(date_stringer).log
+#maybe they unbroke it in 17.10?
+  screen -L$boguslog -S "$screen_name" -d -m nice -n $NICENESS_LEVEL mono "$app_name" 
 
   echo "$(date_stringer ' '): $screen_name started."
   # only sleep if we are not at the last process that gets started.