From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 25 14:28: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from digiworldnet.com (digiworldnet.com [192.41.26.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 981A215A75 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 14:27:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@digiworldnet.com) Received: from hal ([194.158.192.13]) by digiworldnet.com (8.8.5) id PAA25938; Tue, 25 May 1999 15:27:37 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: digiworldnet.com: Host [194.158.192.13] claimed to be hal Message-ID: <024101bea6f5$102aeec0$0ac09ec2@hal> From: "DS" To: "storm" Cc: Subject: Re: Logging Chat rooms, nohup doesn't work? Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 23:23:36 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Leave it to an Aussi! With the /set log on option and a few other command in the .ircrc file screen will do it I used: %nohup screen irc -c #roomname nickname servername.net then ctrl-a and c % screen -d detached % logout Actually I suppose screen -D takes care of the logout and nohup is probably not needed. Thanks for your help, David -----Original Message----- From: storm To: DS Date: Monday, May 24, 1999 9:19 AM Subject: Re: Logging Chat rooms, nohup doesn't work? >Just a thought.. have you tried running it under screen? > >Shane > > >At 09:57 AM 23/5/99 +0300, you wrote: >>Greetings freebsd'ers >> >>First thanks to everyone who have put out this soft, I love it and have been >>tinkering with FBSD since 1994 >> >>I have a chat roon and would like to log everything that goes on in it. I >>tried the standard IRC client and simply redirected it. It worked, but this >>is running on a server and I don't want to stay online. >> >>I tried >>% nohup irc -c#myroom mynick thechatserver >>myroom.log >> >>But it when I suspend the task and try to run it in the back ground I get >>ioctl errors and it stops logging. >> >>Is there some other way? Is there another way I can log what's going on in >>my chat room without staying online? I am not one to ask a question without >>trying everything I know, and this is perhaps the second question I have >>asked in 3 years. I am thinking I am not the first person who has wanted to >>do this, perhaps there is a perl script somewhere?? >> >>I'm not on the list so if you have an answer please write me directly. >> >>I have set up a website/shopping using freebsd apache and mysql, I might be >>able to help someone if they have some questions that I can answer >>http://www.ryerose.net >> >>Thanks for you time >>David Stickney >> >> >> >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> >> >> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message