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screen(1) is just going to fill a massive buffer, then eventually core.

You can capture stdout/stderr to a file using script(1) instead.  Its 
basically  the same as:

% nohup ./command 2>&1 | tee -a ~/command.log &

~BAS

On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, Dwayne Henderson wrote:

> Hi, I run this Ruby + Sequel script inside a screen that records data from
> this live stream 24/7. But it tends to core dump every once in a while, and
> since I run it in a screen (so it's easy to check in on), I can't really
> scroll up to catch the error whenever it happens.
>
> So how do I crontab the screen with the Ruby s