Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 07:19:31 -0800 From: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Is this a good or a bad idea to delete all off this ? Message-ID: <200503150719.31582.ringworm01@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0503151458571.19157@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> References: <ef60af090503141606766c708a@mail.gmail.com> <200503150645.24979.ringworm01@gmail.com> <Pine.GSO.4.61.0503151458571.19157@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
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On Tuesday 15 March 2005 07:02 am, Jan Grant wrote: > On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > On Tuesday 15 March 2005 06:17 am, Tom Trelvik wrote: > > > Gert Cuykens wrote: > > > > can i do controle C when i want to go to sleep while upgrading > > > > ? > > > > > > A cleaner solution, regardless of whatever you're running that > > > you'd like to ^c, is to just let it run inside a screen session > > > and reattach to the screen session later to see how it went. > > > > > > Screen should be every sysadmin's best friend. =) > > > > > > Tom > > > > Tom, mind providing a link that tells us non-sysadmins how to do > > this? > > He's referring to the misc/screen port. The man page is pretty > comprehensive. It basically gives you "virtual" terminal sessions > that you can attach, detach and reattach a client to without > disturbing the underlying session. Thanks Jan for the port name. Chris Hodgins just provided a good link with information about screen, it is nice to know the portname as well. :) -Mike
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