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Date:      Fri, 10 Jan 2003 16:22:04 -0800
From:      Chris Doherty <chris-freebsd@randomcamel.net>
To:        Martin Gignac <lmcgign@phoenix.mobilitylab.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Running portupgrade in the background?
Message-ID:  <20030111002204.GZ27147@zot.electricrain.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030110174631.K74344@phoenix.mobilitylab.net>
References:  <20030110174631.K74344@phoenix.mobilitylab.net>

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On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 05:54:17PM -0500, Martin Gignac said: 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm often use portupgrade in combination with sudo from an SSH session and
> up till now I've never been able to put the portupgrade process in the
> background so that it can finish its job and I can safely exit the SSH
> session.

when a process dies, in general all of its child processes die with it. in
this case the portupgrade process is a child of the ssh session and dies
when you log out.

the solution is nohup(1):

% nohup portupgrade $options &

which should leave the process running after you log out, and will dump
the output to the file nohup.out unless you redirect it elsewhere.

HTH,
chris


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Chris Doherty
chris [at] randomcamel.net

"I think," said Christopher Robin, "that we ought to eat
all our provisions now, so we won't have so much to carry."
               -- A. A. Milne
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