Help: Speeding up Boot Process
Robert Huff
roberthuff at rcn.com
Tue May 11 20:14:08 PDT 2004
Eric Crist writes:
> You can send a program into the background by trailing the command with
> &&. So, if you want to run amp (an mp3 player), you could simply type:
>
> # amp song.mp3 &&
I thought '&' was background and "&&" meant "execute the
foillowing command only if the previous command completed without error"?
> An easier solution is to login to a second virtual terminal by
> hitting Alt-F2 (all the way up to F7). Then just switch back by
> pressing Alt-F1, or whichever terminal you were on before.
And its Ctl-Alt-Fn, not Alt-Fn on my -Current system
Robert Huff
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