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Date:      Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:17:19 -0500
From:      Josh Carroll <josh.carroll@gmail.com>
To:        Jos Chrispijn <jos@webrz.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Portupgrade thru SSH session
Message-ID:  <8cb6106e0901200717u717a0734r933f4337658fffd5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4975DB45.1040407@webrz.net>
References:  <4975DB45.1040407@webrz.net>

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On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Jos Chrispijn <jos@webrz.net> wrote:
> Can someone tell me what I should attend for when I am disconnected in the
> middle of a portupgrade and the terminal session is aborted?
> The portupgrade was halted by a [yes/no] prompt, on which I had to react.
> Unfortunately being not present and I having not set my Putty keepalive
> session timeperiod I was disconnected due to no activity on this system
> prompt $-|.
> What I did after having logged on again was deleting that specific ruby
> process and some tty processes. Perhaps I should delete some other temp
> files as well?

For future runs, you might consider using something like screen
(/usr/ports/sysutils/screen) so you can resume the session later,
should you get disconnected.

Josh



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