Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 11:53:29 +0200 From: Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Wider=F8e?= Andersen <andreas@wideroe.net> To: "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@kayjay.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recover lost ttyps Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20041018115056.03bfaaa0@malibu.wideroe.net> In-Reply-To: <20041018094924.GA93028@kayjay.xs4all.nl> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20041018112957.03b9ccc0@malibu.wideroe.net> <20041018094924.GA93028@kayjay.xs4all.nl>
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At 11:49 18.10.2004, Karel J. Bosschaart wrote: >On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 11:30:02AM +0200, Andreas Wider=F8e Andersen wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there a simple way (as root) to recover lost ttyps? > >Not that I know, but I would be interested to know if it is possible. Does >the process (port build for example) still run? When it happens to me, the >processes in the ttyp usually are killed, except when run with 'nohup'. > > > Example: I'm rebuilding some ports and while this is done the ADSL line= is > > disconnected. A few seconds later I'm back online, but the ttyp0 is lost > > and I'm now logged in as root on ttyp1. > >I use 'screen' (it's in ports: misc/screen) nowadays to work around the >problems when a connection is dropped and I'm very happy with it: >http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ . >I'm using it right now to do a buildworld in a KDE session; if KDE or >X would crash, the buildworld does not stop and I can simply reconnect :-). > >Karel. Thanks, Yes, the processes still run and when finished the port is successfully=20 installed, but then the session disconnects. Windows Terminal Server have=20 this nice function where you can recover lost sessions. I was hoping=20 FreeBSD also had this, allthough I've never heard about it before and I've= =20 been using FreeBSD for 5 years now. I know about screen, but you don't always "expect" a connection to be= broken... Cheers, Andreas --- Andreas Wideroe Andersen <andreas@wideroe.net> Mobile: (+47) 90 92 61 21 http://www.filmshooting.com=20
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