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On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 06:45:24 -0800, Michael C. Shultz
<ringworm01@gmail.com> 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?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> -Mike

You might find this helpful.  Screen is very useful.

http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9142/sam0405f/

Chris