From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 4 13:32:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aragorn.neomedia.it (aragorn.neomedia.it [195.103.207.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADC5214F0F for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 13:31:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bartequi@nojunk.com) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (ppp45-pa4.neomedia.it [195.103.207.237]) by aragorn.neomedia.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA06376 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 22:31:32 +0100 (CET) From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 21:32:51 GMT Message-ID: <20000104.21325100@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: Re: PORTS-System and aborted download To: FreeBSD-Questions X-Mailer: Supercalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear readers, I follow two "methods" (too ambitious a word ;-) when using the ports mechanism: I) if running X, I leave *untouched* my terminal window containing the make command(s), and I connect to my ISP once again. After a few seconds, the interrupted download is automatically resumed. Of course, this "method" requires your physical presence at your monitor. II) if not running X, I login as root to at least *two* consoles. If my connection drops, I can launch it again from the other console(s). To tell the truth, I often run, concurrently (as additional user), another few more graphical sessions (KDE and/or Gnome), depending on my mood (384 MB RAM on my 'puter) ... Remark If you use ppp and the -ddial option, no problems will arise. You will be able to go and have a coffee (or even dinner ;-) while the port is being downloaded and installed. Of course, in this unattended case, "man script" is MANDATORY. To kill a "ppp -ddial myISP" process, you might want to use a suitable combination of "grep" and "awk" commands. I.e. "man grep" and "man awk" ;-) Mind you, apart from Gnome (or KDE, depending on my mood) and a few editing tools, I run *NO* other application as root. I am in fact logged in at least as one other user, sometimes as another 3 or four users ;-))) I hope this will help. Best regards, Salvo N.B. myjokingdomain =3D=3D> neomedia.it to reply. ******************************* * * * Windows: brain-dead limits * * BeOS: limited apps * * Linux: unlimited (mindset) * * FreeBSD: no limits * * * ******************************* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message