Zac Medico wrote:
Raymond Lillard wrote:
Mark Shields wrote:
Perhaps I wasn't clear enough (I apologize, I was only waking up
then). I changed my make.conf file yesterday and starting recompiling
my entire system with emerge -ve world &. I used the & because I was
at work and didn't want the recompile process stopping if my ssh
session was terminated unexpectedly. It's still compiling today as I
see pktstat is running, but I want to be able to see the output. Is
there a way to recapture the output to screen or to a file?
Not that I know of now.
If asked in advance of starting the "emerge", I would have
advised you to use "nohup".
I'm not aware of a way to reconnect with stderr, stdin, and stdout but I
know that those file descriptors still exist in /proc/${PID}/fd.
Normally, in order to accomplish what you want, I would use
app-misc/screen. Screen is a very nice solution because you can
reattach to an interactive terminal whenever you want.
Good idea.
Alternatively, you can redirect the emerge output to a log file:
emerge foo > /var/log/emerge-foo.log 2>&1 &
All true, but the point of using "nohup" is that it disassociates
the nohup'd process from the parent shell/terminal session. This
allows one to start a long running task and log out without ending
it. Pushing a task into the background followed by a logout will
end said background task.
Progress may be monitored by logging in at some later point in
time and/or from some other location. "tail -f" works well for
this.
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Regards,
Ray
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