Mark Kirkwood wrote: > b.n. wrote: >> >>> And screen is your second best friend ever (Google is the first). >>> It's so useful you might consider putting it in your shell profile >>> so you can't forget to use it >> >> Why is using screen so recommended? I never used it, but I'd like to >> know about. >> >> > > An alternative is 'nohup' - if you know that you are gonna run a long > task and wish to be able to shutdown your terminal window. e.g: > > $ nohup emerge kdelibs > $ exit > > Cheers > > Mark >
But can you go back to it like you can with screen? I mean if it fails or something how do you know what happened? I have never used nohup so maybe I need more info, hence the questions. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
