On 8/12/07, mabshoff wrote:
>
> On Aug 12, 7:41 pm, "William Stein" wrote:
> > On 8/12/07, Bill Page wrote:
> >
> <SNIP>
>
> > > Is this a known problem? How should I proceed to build Sage from
> > > source on sage.math?
> >
> > Were you building like this:
> >
> >   nohup make > output&
> >
> <SNIP>
>
> Instead of nohup you might want to try GNU screen which is a utlilty
> to detach and reattach from console sessions. Very nice if you want to
> run some big console job and log out and then reattach when you log in
> again or for the case your connection gets dropped unexpectedly.
>

Thank you very much for the suggestion! (-: new tricks for old dogs :-)

Unfortunately William's original suggestion of also redirecting stderr:

>   nohup make > output 2>error &

did not work (same error message, same place).

But using 'screen' does work... I think I'm going to like 'screen'. :-)

BTW, I found I nice short tutorial on using 'screen' here:

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/3/9/16838/14935

Thanks.

Bill Page.

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