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On Tuesday 15 March 2005 07:02 am, Jan Grant wrote:
> 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.

Thanks Jan for the port name.   Chris Hodgins just provided a good link 
with information about screen, it is nice to know the portname as 
well. :)

-Mike