Job Control

[Matthew Seaman]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 06:49:15AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote:

> I've play a bit with screen but I don't think it will work for my 
> problem so let me restate it. Lets say I wanted to buildworld, build a 
> port, cvsup, portupgrade, etc. but forgot to do it before I left for 
> school, work, or wherever so I ssh into my box and do #foobar& etc. and 
> then exit, then when I get back home I want to see what happened. I 
> guess it just goes to show that there's always a solution to a problem, 
> you just have to look at it from another angle (can you thing of any 
> other solutions btw?):

If all you want to do is inspect the output from your command, then
simply use script(1) to save a transcript of the output.  script(1)
comes with the system.  Use it like this:

    % cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg
    % script /tmp/make.out  sudo make install

And /tmp/make.out will contain a transcript of everything that appears
on your screen during the course of doing that job.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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