I always got into the habit of running these types of commands with nohup and redirecting the output.
I would usally then run a tail -f to watch it. Doing this saved me a couple of times <G>. On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 00:34:54 +1000, Yuhico, Alexandra wrote: >that's another problem. when i ran the unloaddb i ran it through a telnet >putty screen... i left it open but i think the telnet putty timed-out and i >couldn't get my session back. i only knew that the program was running >through ps -elf and ps aux. > >when the unloaddb finally finished, i just searched all the error logs to >look for anything relevant to the unloaddb activity. > >i'm doing something really risky.... i just hope this works. Ian Hobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================= "Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience." -Dilbert
