"Simeon Johnston" <simeonuj at nssmgmt.com> wrote: > > I have been wondering about something lately and can't figure it out. > How do I background a process, say a kernel compile, so I don't have to > sit there and watch it i.e. log in - start process - log out - log in > later - find process done and everyones happy. > > How is this done? For this sort of thing, I'd recommend using screen. Start screen, start your compile, and then press CTRL-A and then D to detach. Run `screen -r' to reattach. There are other ways to do it, but this is probably one of the safer ones.. If you accidentally exit X while screen is open in a terminal window, for instance, your compile will keep running even though its terminal window went away. Just reattach, and everything should be fine.. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ The sign said "eight items / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ or less". So I changed my \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) name to Les. [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011120/8dadff05/attachment.pgp