[NTLUG:Discuss] slightly off topic, but still a *nix...

[Frank Lewis Jr.]

You can get screen for Linux on rpmfind.net or you can get screen for
Solaris at www.sunfreeware.com

-Frank

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From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org] On Behalf
Of Frank Lewis Jr.
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 11:31 PM
To: discuss at ntlug.org
Subject: RE: [NTLUG:Discuss] slightly off topic, but still a *nix...

Grab a copy of the "screen" package and read over the man pages. The
advantage of screen is that you can start a command in a detached
session that you can reattach to from any terminal anywhere anytime and
the program thinks it's running on an actual terminal... I use this to
download files from moderate to slow ftp sites or huge files from fast
sites and many other things. It's much better than any other packages if
you need to be able to check up on a program mid stream and then detach
from it again.

-Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org] On Behalf
Of Fred James
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 10:27 PM
To: discuss at ntlug.org
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] slightly off topic, but still a *nix...

The problem is to start a process and have it continue to completion 
even after I quit my session.

I have been able to do this on some *nix systems with nohup and &, but 
here I am on Solaris8 and all child processes die when I end my session.

Any ideas?

Please don't suggest cron, it is not allowed in this case even though it

would be the perfect answer and I do have access to crontab.

-- 
...make every program a filter...

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