Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 20:48:17 -0600 From: Elvedin <mnsan11@earthlink.net> To: Robert Storey <y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: log off with process running Message-ID: <406399F1.6010909@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <20040326092248.4845573e.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> References: <20040326092248.4845573e.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net>
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Robert Storey wrote: >I know this has got to be a basic question, but strangely enough I haven't been >able to find the answer anywhere... > >Suppose I'm at home with a dial-up connection to the Internet. At the school >where I work we have a server running FreeBSD with a full-time connection (T1 >line). So from home, I log onto the school's server with ssh, and start a >process that will run for a long time, maybe something like this: > > wget ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/bigfile.iso > >OK, that download might run for hours. I don't want to stay connected for hours, >I want to log off and hang up the modem. The question is, how to do so? With the >above process running, I can't even get back to the command line to type "exit" >(and wouldn't typing "exit" kill any process I'm running?). Ditto if I hit >ctrl-c. I suppose I could just hang up the modem, but that's not elegant. > >OK, I'm not a total ignoramus - I suspect that maybe I could put the job in the >background by either hitting ctrl-z while it's running, or maybe starting it >with the "&" parameter. But if I log out from the server with "exit", will that >kill the running processes? The answer to this eludes me - I haven't found >anything said about this in the various documents I've read about ssh. > >So what is the elegant solution? > >regards, >Robert >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned, but why not try screen? It's made for precisely this reason. -- Elvedin Trnjanin sysadmin.ods.org <http://sysadmin.ods.org>; ODS.org <http://www.ods.org>;
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