How to get portinstall to 'shut up' so I can run it in background

[Wes Morgan]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Clint Olsen wrote:

> I've tried redirecting standard output/error, both /bin/sh and /bin/csh,
> and I can't run this in batch.  I'm trying to build gnome which takes
> hours, and I want it backgrounded so that if this SSH shell disconnects it
> doesn't crater the build.  You would think that --batch would make this
> happen, but no go.

Why not just run the build inside a screen session? Getting disconnected 
would have no effect on it then.