Re: run in backround

Programs like 'screen' come in handy when using the amersand hangs your
terminal.

For example: Ssh to a host, and tail -f a file, say, /var/log/messages.
Use the ampersand, and push it into the background.

Now, disconnect from the host - oops! Your terminal hangs.

Now, reconnect and type 'screen tail -f /var/log/messages'. Detach,
and leave the host - woo! You can successfully sever the connection.
Whats even better, if you ssh back in, not only can you pick that back
up, but you have scrollback to boot.

You can also run a lot of things in screen (Control-A, C will create
another terminal you can switch to using Control-A, [some number, 0-9]).

I will typically run screen only in things I want to make sure I have
logs for (say, the console output from a server where I will record the
output using screen), but not normally. I use multi-gnome-terminal, so
if it dies, I just create another terminal tab and SSH away... If I get
too many dead sessions, I minimize that MGT and make a new MGT session...

Adam

Scott Johnson wrote:

>Just curious... but I've always used the screen command in an instance
>such as this.... I can see some advantages to using the "ampersand"
>command, but screen is nice too. Anyone have some opinions here or
>real-life comparisons?
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>On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 12:00:21 -0800, bryan@ak.net <bryan@ak.net> wrote:
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>>On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 12:26:16PM -0700, Newnham <newnham@gci.net> wrote:
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>>>How do I get this command to run in the backround so I am not on the
>>>program when i start it ./hlds_run -game cstrike +map de_dust -autoupdate
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>>Just put a & at the end of the command, with or without a space before
>>it. Any text output of the command will still appear on your screen
>>unless you redirect it before the &. Add something like ">logfile.txt"
>>to send output to a file, or ">/dev/null" to make it disappear.
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>>--
>>Bryan Medsker
>>bryan@ak.net
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