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Subject: Re: How do I make install clean a port in the background
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On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 01:15:12PM -0700, Sean Murphy wrote:
> How do I make install clean a port in the background?  I used
> 
> cd /usr/ports/www/apache22
> make install clean &

It is in the background, but if there is output from the process,
you will see it.

A solution could be "make install clean >/dev/null &", but I'm sure that
it not will be very wise, I dont know what happens if a config screen
shows up, and next point is if you get a fault, it's gone with /dev/null.

Why don't you just use another tty?

Brgds Harry