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Date:      Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:01:40 -0000
From:      "Vince Hoffman" <vince.hoffman@uk.circle.com>
To:        "Charles Swiger" <cswiger@mac.com>, "M.D. DeWar" <mark@s-wit.net>
Cc:        freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: what happens when connection is lost ?
Message-ID:  <023c01c39fd0$a80ca200$850f10ac@uk.circle.com>
References:  <002a01c39cb4$11062e90$0501a8c0@canada><000a01c39da0$0cdb1b40$fb65a8c0@ocfl061> <3F9EE982.5040001@magidesign.com><000a01c39da1$bb981e70$fb65a8c0@ocfl061> <3F9EF09F.3070800@mindcore.net><01c501c39ef7$a536ab40$fb65a8c0@ocfl061><20031030182345.GD29685@rot13.obsecurity.org><017301c39fcf$9daa5ba0$fb65a8c0@ocfl061> <6BA6722D-0BC3-11D8-9CED-003065ABFD92@mac.com>

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> On Oct 31, 2003, at 11:54 AM, M.D. DeWar wrote:
> > Hello,
> > If I am logged in on a FreeBSD machine with ssh.
> > And doing say a ./configure or make  and I lose connection does that
> > stop
> > what I was doing ?
>
> In general, yes-- what happens is that a broken connection results in a
> hangup (HUP) signal being sent to the process group containing ssh,
> your shell, and whatever commands might have been running.
>
> > data get corrupted etc ?
>
> Generally not.  The point of the HUP signal is to allow processes to
> shut down cleanly.  See "man nohup", "man signal"....
>
Also consider installing screen from packages/ports.
screen will keep running if youy lose your connections allowing you to
reconnect to it when you reconnect.

> --
> -Xhuxk
>
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