Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 00:08:35 +1100 (EST) From: andrew@ugh.net.au To: "Daniel \"the Bruce\" Keller" <dkeller@psln.com> Cc: The FreeBSD Questions List <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: switching terminals once logged in Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971121000500.7813F-100000@depravitas.tuu.utas.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <01bcf308$dd172220$813d9bce@g6-200>
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On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Daniel "the Bruce" Keller wrote: > internet. If I immediately dial back into my ISP and telnet back to it I can > see that I am still logged in on whatever terminal I was on before, but > after a few minutes that connection is terminated, is there anyway I can > switch back to this terminal so I can continue downloading? Also is there If you had root access you could use watch but this dosnt seem to be the case. > any way I can start a process (e.g. a ftp transfer) then disconnect and have > it continue executing? The easiest way would be to use screen (its a port). Otherwise once your FTP session is off and running press ^Z. Then type bg. The session should continue to run in the background. Look at that man pages for stty (-tostop), bg, fg etc Andrew
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