Help: Speeding up Boot Process

Peter Ulrich Kruppa root at pukruppa.de
Wed May 12 05:53:52 PDT 2004


On Wed, 12 May 2004, Pavel Duda wrote:

> Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote:
>  >
> >      Please help me sir. I want to make the most out
> > of my FreeBSD system. And one last thing, I know this
> > might sound ignorant on my part but... could you tell
> > how to run multiple programs in one log-in prompt? I
> > didn't acctualy understand how virtual consoles works
> > so every time I'm playing mp3 on mpg123, I will have
> > to press the F keys to login to another prompt just to
> >
> > be able to run another program.
> >
> >
> > Thanks a lot,
> > Mark
> >
>
> Take a look at screen ( ports/misc/screen ).
Or type an ampersand "&" at the end of your mpg123 command. It
will go into the background and you can go on working with your
shell.

Uli.

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