On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:18:24AM +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > Thanks all, I used screen succcessfully, although nohup was the word I was >originally thinking of I think. > > Damn this BSD packaging system is good! screen was not installed, but all i had to >do was: > > su'd to root
That's my main complaint about the BSD Ports system. Other than that it's pretty good. That said, Debian is less effort. It is just "apt-get install screen". Of course Debian has the same damn annoying root problem.
