From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 20 05:08:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA03473 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 05:08:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from css.tuu.utas.edu.au (css.tuu.utas.edu.au [131.217.115.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA03468 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 05:08:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@ugh.net.au) From: andrew@ugh.net.au Received: from localhost (acs@localhost) by css.tuu.utas.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA15138; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 00:08:35 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: depravitas.tuu.utas.edu.au: acs owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 00:08:35 +1100 (EST) To: "Daniel \"the Bruce\" Keller" cc: The FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: switching terminals once logged in In-Reply-To: <01bcf308$dd172220$813d9bce@g6-200> Message-ID: X-Meaning-of-Life: none X-WonK: *wibble* MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Daniel "the Bruce" Keller wrote: > internet. If I immediately dial back into my ISP and telnet back to it I can > see that I am still logged in on whatever terminal I was on before, but > after a few minutes that connection is terminated, is there anyway I can > switch back to this terminal so I can continue downloading? Also is there If you had root access you could use watch but this dosnt seem to be the case. > any way I can start a process (e.g. a ftp transfer) then disconnect and have > it continue executing? The easiest way would be to use screen (its a port). Otherwise once your FTP session is off and running press ^Z. Then type bg. The session should continue to run in the background. Look at that man pages for stty (-tostop), bg, fg etc Andrew