How to get portinstall to 'shut up' so I can run it in background

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Tue Dec 4 22:20:50 PST 2007


Ben Kelly wrote:

> Maybe I am doing something wrong, but I have never been able to get
> nohup to work correctly with portupgrade for this sort of this.  For
> example:
> 
> ianto# nohup portupgrade -a >& /tmp/port.log &

You just want to do 'nohup portupgrade -a &'
output will be captured in nohup.out.

hth,

Doug

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