Thanks Chris, Actually, under heavy pressure from the other half, I tried CTRL-C last night. I was doing emerge world and she objects to the computer noise while we sleep (it is in the bedroom at the moment).
Yes I do you the Citylink mirror. Rob On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 23:04, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Fri, 06 Dec 2002 22:14, you wrote: > > To experienced Gentoo users. > > > > Can you somehow pause an emerge and shutdown the computer then restart > > later? > > yes, I have done that. If you are doing a run of d/ls and compilations, it > would, if convenient, be best to stop the emerge during a d/l. It will > re-start and continue from where it left off. > > If you started the emerge from a login terminal, just issue a CTRL-C to stop > it. If there is no controlling terminal issue a SIGINT to the emerge process. > > The d/l will restart from where it left off and the make process will restart > properly too. > > I assume that you know that the NZ mirror for the gentoo system is:- > > /etc/make.globals:GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.citylink.co.nz/gentoo"; > /etc/make.globals:SYNC="rsync://linux.citylink.co.nz/gentoo-x86-portage" > > Goes full speed every time for me. > > -- > Sincerely etc., > Christopher Sawtell -- Robert Fisher http://www.fisherfamily.orcon.net.nz
