buildworld via ssh

[Matthew Seaman]

lists 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?

You're typing commands using Bourne shell syntax but you're actually 
running tcsh(1).  For Csh-alikes like tcsh, the command would be:

     # make -DNOCLEAN buildworld &> blah.txt &

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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