From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 20 17:10: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.zilium.de (plattgetrampelt.von.zilium.de [213.221.80.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C56AD37B41B for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:09:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from disorder.zilium.de (dialin-145-254-081-008.arcor-ip.net [145.254.81.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "disorder.spasskloppe.de", Issuer "ZILIUM-CA" (verified OK)) by mail.zilium.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 928A5F819; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 02:09:38 +0100 (CET) Received: by disorder.zilium.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BB98F676A04; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 02:09:33 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 02:09:33 +0100 From: Joerg Bornschein To: Sergei Vyshenski Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade insists on tty output Message-ID: <20020321010933.GA9237@disorder.zilium.de> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020320175430.00aa0e08@vivaldi.pn.sinp.msu.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020320175430.00aa0e08@vivaldi.pn.sinp.msu.ru> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message