On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 05:36:23PM -0800 I heard the voice of Clint Olsen, and lo! it spake thus: > > 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.
I've generally found screen(1) the better solution to those sort of situations (and many, many others, for that matter). -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"