+1 for screen. You might think it's more than you need, but it will change your life. Worth it!
On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 7:45 PM Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote: > When nohup works, it's great. But when it doesn't ( e.g. asks for a > password or confirmation a few minutes after starting ), it can be a > bummer. > > For those not familiar with screen, here are five basic commands to get > started: > > # to create a screen session > screen > > # to detach from a screen session > ^Ad ( that is, Ctrl + A, then d ) > > # to list running screen sessions ( list is of the form {pid}.{other stuff} > ) > screen -ls > > # to attach to a running screen session > screen -x {pid of running screen session} > > # to stop a running screen session > exit # do this from within a screen session > > There are a lot more options and lots of other really cool things that can > be done with screen and even more with tmux. But those five will get you > started. > > BTW, another option for running long commands in the background is to use > Docker. :) > > Enjoy, > - Robert > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 2:19 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This would be the time to bring up - screen or tmux sessions as an > > alternatives > > to nohup. > > > > If you logout/disconnect from screen/tmux sessions - you can reconnect > > later to > > see the progress or how it all finished. > > > > Tomas > > > > On Tue, 2019-09-17 at 14:05 -0700, Galen Seitz wrote: > > > On 9/17/19 2:00 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > > > On Tue, 17 Sep 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: > > > > > > > > > each takes 30+ minutes on my 1.8GB FiOS line. The list is in a bash > > > > > script > > > > > > > > Oops! That's 1.8MB/sec. > > > > > > Unless you're planning to logout after executing the script, nohup > > > should not be needed. > > > > > > galen > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
