From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 26 23:56:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0901916A420 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:56:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B471243D6E for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:56:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E2D61A3C1B for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:56:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DD87F52135; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:56:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:56:52 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060126235652.GA26886@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <41b95770601261225m2a575b19o@mail.gmail.com> <20060126234652.GH1940@merkur.atekomi.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060126234652.GH1940@merkur.atekomi.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: Re: "screen" alternative X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:56:54 -0000 --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 05:46:52PM -0600, Will Maier wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 09:25:51PM +0100, Grzegorz Danecki wrote: > > I'm running 5.4 Stable and I'm looking for something, that can let > > me detach my session leaving my software running. First thought - > > "screen", but hey, there is no screen package in ports collection > > :( Google says something that it was removed due to high cpu > > utilization few releases ago. Is this true? >=20 > FreeBSD does not distribute a compiled binary package for screen, > but you are welcome to compile your own. If you have the ports > system installed (as you probably do), just do the following: >=20 > cd /usr/ports/misc/screen > sudo make install >=20 > That should install screen. If you have questions about the ports > system, read the manpage or the FreeBSD handbook. >=20 > > Are there any alternatives? Because as I can remember screen was > > frequently used and highly appreciated application. >=20 > screen works fine on FreeBSD -- the package building process just > doesn't make it possible for FreeBSD to provide a pre-compiled > version. As I said, you're welcome to compile your own. It's the > first thing I do when I set up a new system. To be clear, there's some kind of bug in screen that causes the package build to fail under certain circumstances that are not well understood. Kris --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD2WHEWry0BWjoQKURAqyUAJ9EGtKrpRW9vPmfZviZflA+b4di1QCeO9hD Cr6JiD05/cZv/ZJt0L84kCw= =ALff -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND--