Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:56:52 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "screen" alternative Message-ID: <20060126235652.GA26886@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060126234652.GH1940@merkur.atekomi.net> References: <41b95770601261225m2a575b19o@mail.gmail.com> <20060126234652.GH1940@merkur.atekomi.net>
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--d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 05:46:52PM -0600, Will Maier wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 09:25:51PM +0100, Grzegorz Danecki wrote: > > I'm running 5.4 Stable and I'm looking for something, that can let > > me detach my session leaving my software running. First thought - > > "screen", but hey, there is no screen package in ports collection > > :( Google says something that it was removed due to high cpu > > utilization few releases ago. Is this true? >=20 > FreeBSD does not distribute a compiled binary package for screen, > but you are welcome to compile your own. If you have the ports > system installed (as you probably do), just do the following: >=20 > cd /usr/ports/misc/screen > sudo make install >=20 > That should install screen. If you have questions about the ports > system, read the manpage or the FreeBSD handbook. >=20 > > Are there any alternatives? Because as I can remember screen was > > frequently used and highly appreciated application. >=20 > screen works fine on FreeBSD -- the package building process just > doesn't make it possible for FreeBSD to provide a pre-compiled > version. As I said, you're welcome to compile your own. It's the > first thing I do when I set up a new system. To be clear, there's some kind of bug in screen that causes the package build to fail under certain circumstances that are not well understood. Kris --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD2WHEWry0BWjoQKURAqyUAJ9EGtKrpRW9vPmfZviZflA+b4di1QCeO9hD Cr6JiD05/cZv/ZJt0L84kCw= =ALff -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND--
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