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 ------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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