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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 11:49:24 +0200
From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@kayjay.nl>
To: Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Wider=F8e?= Andersen <andreas@wideroe.net>
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Subject: Re: Recover lost ttyps
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On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 11:30:02AM +0200, Andreas Widerĝe Andersen wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there a simple way (as root) to recover lost ttyps?

Not that I know, but I would be interested to know if it is possible. Does 
the process (port build for example) still run? When it happens to me, the 
processes in the ttyp usually are killed, except when run with 'nohup'.

> Example: I'm rebuilding some ports and while this is done the ADSL line is 
> disconnected. A few seconds later I'm back online, but the ttyp0 is lost 
> and I'm now logged in as root on ttyp1.

I use 'screen' (it's in ports: misc/screen) nowadays to work around the 
problems when a connection is dropped and I'm very happy with it:
http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ .
I'm using it right now to do a buildworld in a KDE session; if KDE or
X would crash, the buildworld does not stop and I can simply reconnect :-).

Karel.