On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > On Tuesday 15 March 2005 06:17 am, Tom Trelvik wrote: > > Gert Cuykens wrote: > > > can i do controle C when i want to go to sleep while upgrading ? > > > > A cleaner solution, regardless of whatever you're running that you'd > > like to ^c, is to just let it run inside a screen session and > > reattach to the screen session later to see how it went. > > > > Screen should be every sysadmin's best friend. =) > > > > Tom > > Tom, mind providing a link that tells us non-sysadmins how to do this?
He's referring to the misc/screen port. The man page is pretty comprehensive. It basically gives you "virtual" terminal sessions that you can attach, detach and reattach a client to without disturbing the underlying session. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287864 or +44 (0)117 9287088 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Random act of violence against bread: whole pint. -- extract from the "Hawk the Slayer" drinking game _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
