Re: Slow performance as root over SSH?

2008-04-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
Edward Ruggeri wrote: Hi all, (This may actually be a question for the dtach people). I've recently been using dtach (basically the detach function of screen) over SSH to instruct my freeBSD machine to perform long tasks even after I disconnect from it. It's worked great: I run SSH and

Re: Slow performance as root over SSH?

2008-04-14 Thread Edward Ruggeri
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edward Ruggeri wrote: Recently, I figured to do this with portupgrade. Now, I don't allow root login, so I log in as a user in the wheel group and use su. Now, as root, I run: dtach -A portupgrade -a. It starts

Re: Slow performance as root over SSH?

2008-04-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
Edward Ruggeri wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edward Ruggeri wrote: Recently, I figured to do this with portupgrade. Now, I don't allow root login, so I log in as a user in the wheel group and use su. Now, as root, I run: dtach -A portupgrade

Re: Slow performance as root over SSH?

2008-04-14 Thread Edward Ruggeri
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No. Unless dtach is doing something bizarre I cannot think of a reason this would be happening. Kris Maybe I simply over-sentimentalized the old days of updating the portsdb. Sincerely, -- Ned Ruggeri