Another tip: emerge screen, and learn how to use it. I find this to be an incredibly useful tool; I might, for example, be emerging something big (read: KDE), and take breaks. Before I used screen, I'd leave it running on one of the virtual consoles and log out of X so other people can (slowly) use the computer, but then I'd have to switch to the VC to look at the progress. With screen, you can detach and reattach programs, so you can effectively move the compilation output back and forth between an Xterm and a vc. Screen also has a password lock, which is useful when you have young siblings. Screen, of course, is much more useful than that, but those are the features I find particularily useful with portage.
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 10:36:50AM +0000, Christopher Egner wrote: > You can actually do this with more than one process, however, to find > out what apps you've halted, run 'jobs' There is a number in backets, > here's an example > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] disciplezero $ jobs > [1]- Stopped cat > [2]+ Stopped vi > [EMAIL PROTECTED] disciplezero $ > > if I type fg, it starts up whatever has the plus (or bg for that matter) > then what if I want to start up the first one?? Simple type %1. The way > it works is you type percent followed by the job number. > > Enjoy > > On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 15:20, Kirtis Bakalarczyk wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 04:25:08 -0700 (PDT) > > G?zim Hoxha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > 3.) If I were to do emerge kde then after.... say 10 > > > packages, I have to stop, and do CTRL+C, what > > > happenes? Is the package that was compiling gonna > > > automatically finish compiling when I do emerge kde > > > again? > > > > There's a better way to accomplish this.. Just press CTRL+Z during a compile (it > > can scew up downloads sometimes) > > which will stop the process but won't kill it. When you're ready to start it back > > up again use either the > > 'fg' (for foreground) command or the 'bg' (for background) command. Just make > > sure you don't close the terminal > > with the stopped process. > > > > KIRT > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). > > > http://calendar.yahoo.com > > > > > > -- > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- Tactless "If it wasn't for fog, the world would run at a really crappy framerate." This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
