Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 22:33:54 -0500 From: "Eric Crist" <ecrist@secure-computing.net> To: "'Robert Huff'" <roberthuff@rcn.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Help: Speeding up Boot Process Message-ID: <004501c437d1$f4788c50$6401a8c0@Nomad> In-Reply-To: <16545.38526.682883.156432@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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-----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Robert Huff Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 10:14 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Help: Speeding up Boot Process Eric Crist writes: > You can send a program into the background by trailing the command > with &&. So, if you want to run amp (an mp3 player), you could > simply type: > > # amp song.mp3 && I thought '&' was background and "&&" meant "execute the foillowing command only if the previous command completed without error"? You're correct here.... My bad. > An easier solution is to login to a second virtual terminal by > hitting Alt-F2 (all the way up to F7). Then just switch back by > pressing Alt-F1, or whichever terminal you were on before. And its Ctl-Alt-Fn, not Alt-Fn on my -Current system On my system, unless you're in X, it's Alt-Fn (you have to do Ctl-Alt-Fn from an X session).
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