From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 22 15:44:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16AA216A4CE for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:44:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B742243D31 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:44:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) iAMFiEom040815 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:44:14 GMT (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)iAMFiEVW040814; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:44:14 GMT (envelope-from matthew) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:44:14 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman To: Nikolas Britton Message-ID: <20041122154414.GC40103@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Nikolas Britton , Martin Hepworth , freebsd-questions References: <41A1C433.90406@nbritton.org> <41A1C865.30308@solid-state-logic.com> <41A1E04B.9070107@nbritton.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="p4qYPpj5QlsIQJ0K" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41A1E04B.9070107@nbritton.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.6 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]); Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:44:14 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/596/Sat Nov 20 10:53:39 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j on smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL autolearn=ham version=3.0.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (2004-10-22) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: freebsd-questions cc: Martin Hepworth Subject: Re: Job Control X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:44:36 -0000 --p4qYPpj5QlsIQJ0K Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 06:49:15AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > I've play a bit with screen but I don't think it will work for my=20 > problem so let me restate it. Lets say I wanted to buildworld, build a=20 > port, cvsup, portupgrade, etc. but forgot to do it before I left for=20 > school, work, or wherever so I ssh into my box and do #foobar& etc. and= =20 > then exit, then when I get back home I want to see what happened. I=20 > guess it just goes to show that there's always a solution to a problem,= =20 > you just have to look at it from another angle (can you thing of any=20 > other solutions btw?): If all you want to do is inspect the output from your command, then simply use script(1) to save a transcript of the output. script(1) comes with the system. Use it like this: % cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg % script /tmp/make.out sudo make install And /tmp/make.out will contain a transcript of everything that appears on your screen during the course of doing that job. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --p4qYPpj5QlsIQJ0K Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBoglOiD657aJF7eIRAkjcAJ4hpy2N0emMw8cpLmCgC8cg7t9YAgCfTJPA vtT2vtbojQiEUYTrFCxFoBQ= =weFJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --p4qYPpj5QlsIQJ0K--