buildworld via ssh

[Joshua Lokken]

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 12:24:38 -0500, lists <lists at haubworld.org> wrote:
> I did a 'make -DNOCLEAN buildworld 2>&1 blah.txt &' and it didnt work as I
> would have expected.
> It spaced it out when I looked at the processes like this
> make -DNOCLEAN buildworld 2 > & 1 blah.txt &
> So, it tried to also tried to "make 2" and failed and wrote the output to a
> file named "1"
> A redirect like this works on BSDi, not sure why it didn't in this case on
> FreeBSD5.2
> Am I doing something wrong?
> 
> BTW i now have this
> # ll /usr/obj/usr/src/usr.sbin/zzz
> total 2
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1076 Dec 23 07:34 zzz.8.gz

>From this reference, it looks like the syntax should be:
(for sh and friends, not csh):

# make -DNO_CLEAN buildworld file.txt 2>&1 &

Works on my system ;)

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Joshua Lokken
Open Source Advocate