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Subject: Re: How to know that make buildworld finished
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> Hi,
>
> For testing purposes, I am trying to build a quite old (read slow)
> machine. It happens that every time I start a buildworld, I will have
> to leave before the end. And next morning the shell I was using to run
> the buildworld will have terminated for some reason.
>
> So I cannot see if the make did finished successfully or not.
>
> Is there a way to check that make buildworld did finished
> successfully?
>

Sounds like you are ssh'ing in to the box and the ssh session is
disconnected before morning? If so when you connect to the box run screen
before you build world. Then in the morning you can reconnect to the same
session after ssh'ing to the box with screen -rd.