Job Control

[Martin Hepworth]

Nikolas

yes screen will do that, detach first before logout, then re-attach when 
you want o get back to that session. Also no need to background the job, 
as screen will just keep the job running after detach anyway..

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Nikolas Britton wrote:
> Martin Hepworth wrote:
> 
>> Nikolas
>>
>> Presumably you've also nohup -ed the background job too....:-)
>>
>> anyway have a look at 'screen' to give you virtual terminals that you 
>> drop out of and back into when you want to.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Martin Hepworth
>> Snr Systems Administrator
>> Solid State Logic
>> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>>
>>
> I've play a bit with screen but I don't think it will work for my 
> problem so let me restate it. Lets say I wanted to buildworld, build a 
> port, cvsup, portupgrade, etc. but forgot to do it before I left for 
> school, work, or wherever so I ssh into my box and do #foobar& etc. and 
> then exit, then when I get back home I want to see what happened. I 
> guess it just goes to show that there's always a solution to a problem, 
> you just have to look at it from another angle (can you thing of any 
> other solutions btw?):
> 
> 
> $ ssh localhost
> Password: ****
> Last login: Mon Nov 22 06:13:59 2004 from localhost
> Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994
>        The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
> 
> FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p1 (SPECTRA) #0: Sat Nov 20 23:30:17 CST 2004
> 
> Welcome to FreeBSD!
> 
> $ su
> Password: ****
> spectra# cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile > /root/ports-supfile.log&
> [1] 71669
> spectra# exit
> exit
> $ exit
> Connection to localhost closed.
> $ tail /root/ports-supfile.log
>  Add delta 1.25 2004.11.21.22.03.48 marcus
> Edit ports/x11-toolkits/py-gnome2/Makefile
>  Add delta 1.78 2004.11.20.17.18.17 kwm
> Edit ports/x11-toolkits/py-gnome2/distinfo
>  Add delta 1.28 2004.11.20.17.18.17 kwm
> Edit ports/x11-toolkits/py-gnome2/pkg-plist
>  Add delta 1.31 2004.11.20.17.18.17 kwm
> Updating collection ports-x11-wm/cvs
> Shutting down connection to server
> Finished successfully
> $ exit
> 
> 
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