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Date:      Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:29:33 +0100
From:      Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>
To:        Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org>
Cc:        Martin Hepworth <martinh@solid-state-logic.com>
Subject:   Re: Job Control
Message-ID:  <20041122142933.GA10428@ei.bzerk.org>
In-Reply-To: <41A1E04B.9070107@nbritton.org>
References:  <41A1C433.90406@nbritton.org> <41A1C865.30308@solid-state-logic.com> <41A1E04B.9070107@nbritton.org>

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On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 06:49:15AM -0600, Nikolas Britton typed:
> >
> I've play a bit with screen but I don't think it will work for my 
> problem so let me restate it. Lets say I wanted to buildworld, build a 
> port, cvsup, portupgrade, etc. but forgot to do it before I left for 
> school, work, or wherever so I ssh into my box and do #foobar& etc. and 
> then exit, then when I get back home I want to see what happened. I 
> guess it just goes to show that there's always a solution to a problem, 
> you just have to look at it from another angle (can you thing of any 
> other solutions btw?):

>From work:
# nohup foobar >& foobar.log &

Back home:
# tail -f foobar.log

Ruben



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