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Date:      Thu, 21 Mar 2002 02:09:33 +0100
From:      Joerg Bornschein <joerg@zilium.de>
To:        Sergei Vyshenski <svysh@pn.sinp.msu.ru>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portupgrade insists on tty output
Message-ID:  <20020321010933.GA9237@disorder.zilium.de>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020320175430.00aa0e08@vivaldi.pn.sinp.msu.ru>
References:  <5.1.0.14.2.20020320175430.00aa0e08@vivaldi.pn.sinp.msu.ru>

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On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 06:09:19PM +0300, Sergei Vyshenski wrote:


Hi,

> What does portupgrade want to say to tty?
> How I can run it in batch mode?
> It seems essential for remote administration, as
> abrupt break of connnection could lead to heavy damage of
> ports and packages databases. Yes?

Using misc/screen will get you efficiently around this problem:
If you lost your connection or detached your session with '^A-d' you
can reattach it by using 'screen -r'. This will even work for cronjobs
and alike.


  joerg


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