Remote upgrade

[James Long]

On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 03:40:21PM -0500, boxend at swbell.net wrote:
> When doing a remote upgrade, what is the best way to force the process into the 
> background, in case the dialup line for ssh session dies before buildworld finishes.


Ensure that /tmp/ has free space to hold a few Megabytes of output, and use:

# make buildworld >/tmp/make_bw.out 2>&1 &

Then you can monitor the progress of the make by examining /tmp/make_bw.out

# tail -f /tmp/make_bw.out

Control-C will terminate tail, and return you to a shell prompt,
while the make continues to run in the background.

This is not as sophisticated as using screen, but simpler, and does
not require installing any additional software.