From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 15 15:02:35 2005 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 93DDB16A4CE for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:02:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from diri.bris.ac.uk (diri.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F24C043D3F for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:02:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.16.62]) by diri.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1DBDYp-0004md-9e; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:02:27 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1DBDYe-0006mS-Ju; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:02:08 +0000 Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:02:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: "Michael C. Shultz" In-Reply-To: <200503150645.24979.ringworm01@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <4236EE85.1000503@cwru.edu> <200503150645.24979.ringworm01@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: Jan Grant X-Spam-Score: -2.8 X-Spam-Level: -- cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is this a good or a bad idea to delete all off this ? 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: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:02:35 -0000 On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > On Tuesday 15 March 2005 06:17 am, Tom Trelvik wrote: > > Gert Cuykens wrote: > > > can i do controle C when i want to go to sleep while upgrading ? > > > > A cleaner solution, regardless of whatever you're running that you'd > > like to ^c, is to just let it run inside a screen session and > > reattach to the screen session later to see how it went. > > > > Screen should be every sysadmin's best friend. =) > > > > Tom > > Tom, mind providing a link that tells us non-sysadmins how to do this? He's referring to the misc/screen port. The man page is pretty comprehensive. It basically gives you "virtual" terminal sessions that you can attach, detach and reattach a client to without disturbing the underlying session. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287864 or +44 (0)117 9287088 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Random act of violence against bread: whole pint. -- extract from the "Hawk the Slayer" drinking game