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. > > 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 -- stefan http://stsp.name PGP Key: 0xF59D25F0
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