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

[Garrett Cooper]

On Nov 27, 2007, at 5:41 PM, Wes Morgan wrote:

> 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.

That's the only option that I know of other than building an item  
locally or batching via cron... besides, ssh times out connections  
after a while anyhow, so it's toast anyways if you don't do screen or  
a local build...
-Garrett