On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Paul wrote: > line. But here goes nothing. I put a process in the background with the > &. Now I want to look at what it is doing. > ie I am running hardcrack and I put it in the background and I want to see > what it is doing. hardcrack&. Can I see what it is doing? Is there a way
Paul: I do this by running: hardcrack > ~/hardcrack.out & Then all of the output of hardcrack is written to hardcrack.out. If I want to review it later, I can just: less ~/hardcrack.out or, if you want to watch the output as it comes up: tail -f ~/hardcrack.out Steve. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .