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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
