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Date:      Tue, 4 Dec 2007 00:13:12 +0100
From:      Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to get portinstall to 'shut up' so I can run it in background
Message-ID:  <20071203231312.GA1449@ted.stsp.lan>
In-Reply-To: <475488D8.2090301@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20071128013623.GA48799@belle.0lsen.net> <475488D8.2090301@FreeBSD.org>

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On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 02:53:12PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> Clint Olsen wrote:
> > I've tried redirecting standard output/error, both /bin/sh and /bin/csh,
> > and I can't run this in batch.  I'm trying to build gnome which takes
> > hours, and I want it backgrounded so that if this SSH shell disconnects=
 it
> > doesn't crater the build.  You would think that --batch would make this
> > happen, but no go.
>=20
> While I know screen(1) has a lot of devotees, you could almost
> certainly use nohup for this same purpose, with the pleasant side
> effect that you will have a log of what happened on disk in case
> something blows up.

Screen also has log functionality.
Toggle with: Ctrl+A, then Shift+H

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