-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 01:38 pm, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > Does anyone know of a way that I can run a long job (from a shell, not > GUI but takes days) so I can reboot the machine without losing the work > done so far.
None that I know of. > > The only way I can think of is to use vmware and sleep it over the > reboot, but I would prefer something that does not have any overhead: > this takes long enough as is! > You can run a long process on the host vmware and there is no need to sleep it. Being on the host os will save you some overheard. Also renice ing a process is a good way to keep its impact to whats going on minimal. > BillK If you tell us the problem there may be another solution Daniel - -- Proudly a Gentoo User. GnuPG/PGP signed and encrypted email preferred http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x32A64DC8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/mLDJTDSbtjKmTcgRAsaDAKCCc+WKxe3xsmVOY4F4L12CLbX+nwCfZgbA ekI5gvce2Z4ce7US72t3qKY= =IzYL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
