From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 30 21:06:43 2004 Return-Path: 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 194A516A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 21:06:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from bayok.msumain.edu.ph (unknown [203.177.105.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 417F443D31 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 21:06:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rfa@msumain.edu.ph) Received: (qmail 2988 invoked from network); 31 Mar 2004 05:28:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bayok.msumain.edu.ph) (203.177.105.166) by 203.177.105.166 with SMTP; 31 Mar 2004 05:28:41 -0000 Received: from 203.177.105.170 (proxying for 192.168.16.12) (SquirrelMail authenticated user rfa) by bayok.msumain.edu.ph with HTTP; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 13:28:41 +0800 (PHT) Message-ID: <1789.203.177.105.170.1080710921.squirrel@bayok.msumain.edu.ph> In-Reply-To: <4063A1E8.7040008@daleco.biz> References: <20040326092248.4845573e.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net><1080264423.630.11.came l@gandalf> <4063A1E8.7040008@daleco.biz> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 13:28:41 +0800 (PHT) From: rfa@msumain.edu.ph To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Subject: Re: log off with process running X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 05:06:43 -0000 >>nohup is a possible solution; check its man page. >> >>Example: >> >>$ nohup wget http://server/big.iso & >> >>On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 05:22, Robert Storey wrote: >> >>>I want to log off and hang up the modem. The question is, how to do so? >>> With the above process running, I can't even get back to the command line to type "exit" >>>(and wouldn't typing "exit" kill any process I'm running?). Ditto if I >>> hit ctrl-c. I suppose I could just hang up the modem, but that's not >>> elegant. > > Screen, nohup, etc; all great answers. > > Just for curiosity's sake, isn't standard redirection > the first thing to think of? > > #cvsup /ports-via-modem.sup > /root/cvsuplog & > > Wanna get it back? > > #jobs > [1] + Running cvsup /ports-via-modem.sup > > /root/cvsuplog > > Wanna keep it in the bg, but check its current status? > > $tail -f /myhome/cvsuplog > > Willing to be educated, > > Kevin Kinsey > DaleCo, S.P. > I was wondering if I did something like this using putty: #nohup btlaunchmany.py . & and then the session was terminated because of a power spike, how could I put the process back into the foreground after logging in again so I could see its statistics? I wouldnt want to use redirection because it would probably use too much disk. Thanks, Rommel