From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 22 6:50:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-1.sjc.telocity.net (mail-1.sjc.telocity.net [216.227.56.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8A7737B69B for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 06:50:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from otter@telocity.com) Received: from zoso (dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com [216.227.91.85]) by mail-1.sjc.telocity.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id GAA04742; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 06:47:42 -0700 (PDT) From: "Otter" To: "Rahul Siddharthan" Cc: Subject: RE: Task from remote location. Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 09:49:33 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20000422183942.A18318@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Rahul Siddharthan Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2000 9:10 AM To: System operator Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Task from remote location. * Ive got a little question. > How can I start task of downloading bunch of > files been connected through dial-up+telnet then > disconnect from host leaving the task active? > Thanks for help. > Alex. You can use nohup, with ftp or wget (/usr/ports/net/wget). Instead of ftp, use nohup ftp, proceed as usual, use prompt and mget to get several files without confirmation, make sure the downloading has started, then disconnect: the ftp should continue. With wget, or with ftp for a single file, you can just put an & at the end of the command, the thing will be put in the background and you can disconnect whenever you like without disturbing it. * Yes, this may be a working solution. You should really check out screen (/usr/ports/misc/screen). Yes, the others will work if you have a task you want completed and don't care about the state you leave it in. Let's say that you're editing a script or reading a log file and get disconnected. Screen will allow you to return to that same view you were at when you left (providing no errors show to that screen). As a customer of an undependable dialup ISP back around '95, I found that to be a very handy tool for working in remote machines. Check into it. It's definitely worth your time. -Otter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message