-- Michael Kahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Wednesday, 29 January 2003, 10:48 AM -0600): > I am not sure how to ask for what I want here. But, here goes. I was using > dump to make a backup of a directory on my computer. This was started from > a terminal in X. As it was running I could see in the terminal window all > the status output from the program. Good. This backup job took a long time > to complete and so I went home while the backup was still running. When at > home I ssh'd into the box to see if the dump process was still running, it > was. Then I got to thinking, how can I see the output of this program in my > current ssh session? Is there a program that exists to allow me to redirect > the output of a program running in a terminal to another terminal? I hope I > am explaining this clearly.
redirect output to a file: dump > somefile and then you can look at 'somefile' to see what's been happening, or use 'tail -f somefile' to see it happening in 'realtime'. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]