Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:02:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is this a good or a bad idea to delete all off this ? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0503151458571.19157@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <200503150645.24979.ringworm01@gmail.com> References: <ef60af090503141606766c708a@mail.gmail.com> <ef60af0905031417156fc72929@mail.gmail.com> <4236EE85.1000503@cwru.edu> <200503150645.24979.ringworm01@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > On Tuesday 15 March 2005 06:17 am, Tom Trelvik wrote: > > Gert Cuykens wrote: > > > can i do controle C when i want to go to sleep while upgrading ? > > > > A cleaner solution, regardless of whatever you're running that you'd > > like to ^c, is to just let it run inside a screen session and > > reattach to the screen session later to see how it went. > > > > Screen should be every sysadmin's best friend. =) > > > > Tom > > Tom, mind providing a link that tells us non-sysadmins how to do this? He's referring to the misc/screen port. The man page is pretty comprehensive. It basically gives you "virtual" terminal sessions that you can attach, detach and reattach a client to without disturbing the underlying session. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287864 or +44 (0)117 9287088 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Random act of violence against bread: whole pint. -- extract from the "Hawk the Slayer" drinking game
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