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> I am doing a buildworld(Rel5.2) via ssh to a remote location. I detached the
> process from my session, but I failed to
> pipe the output to a logfile. Long story short, my session was terminated
> and I am not sure if the process completed
> correctly or not. Is there any way to find out if the build was sucessful?

Not exactly an answer to your question (since it has been answered
already) but you may wish to look in to getting screen, among the
finest utilities I've ever used.  It resides in
/usr/ports/misc/screen.  This would allow you to detach from a running
process and reattach to it.

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