[Bill Kenworthy]
> 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.
>
> 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!

Perhaps Kernel Software Suspend is what you're looking for. It's a kernel 
patch that enables you to freeze your computer's status (comparable to 
VMWare's suspend option). It stops all processes and writes their data to the
swap partition. On the next reboot it restores it all.

http://swsusp.sourceforge.net/

-- 
Lars Gust�bel
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A casual stroll through a lunatic asylum shows that
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