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Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:17:01 -0600
From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org>
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Ruben de Groot wrote:

>On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 06:49:15AM -0600, Nikolas Britton typed:
>  
>
>>I've play a bit with screen but I don't think it will work for my 
>>problem so let me restate it. Lets say I wanted to buildworld, build a 
>>port, cvsup, portupgrade, etc. but forgot to do it before I left for 
>>school, work, or wherever so I ssh into my box and do #foobar& etc. and 
>>then exit, then when I get back home I want to see what happened. I 
>>guess it just goes to show that there's always a solution to a problem, 
>>you just have to look at it from another angle (can you thing of any 
>>other solutions btw?):
>>    
>>
>
>>From work:
># nohup foobar >& foobar.log &
>
>Back home:
># tail -f foobar.log
>
>Ruben
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Thanks....

# nohup foobar >& foobar.log &
              ^^^^          ^^^

Why'd you do it like that, how is it diffrent from this way?:
# nohup foobar > foobar.log &