On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 09:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Control-z is typically suspend. To later be resumed with the fg command. > That might work. I've never suspended a compile myself so I can't say for > sure. I use control-z a lot if I am reading my email and need to check > something. It may or may not have deeper complication with more exotic > programs. But if you find it works, by all means let me know.
If you run the emerge under screen(1) you can pause it with Control-Z and later resume it from the same or even a different login session. Screen is great for managing long-running tasks that you might want to monitor from several places. Seth [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
