Am Sonntag 28 Januar 2007 12:58 schrieb Mathieu Seigneurin: > On Sunday 28 January 2007 12:51:08 Dieter Ries wrote: > > Hi, > > > > how can i run emerge -vD world, when i only have the possibility to > > access the machine via ssh for a short time? > > > > i have tried emerge -vD world & > > > > but that seems to stop before even the first ebuild is compiled. Then i > > tried putting the emerge command into a bash script, and running > > > > emergeworld.sh& > > > > but that had the same effect. > > > > There has to be a possibility... > > > > cu > > Dieter > > I think the easiest thing for this is to use the 'screen' utility. It will > allow you to start emerge and disconnect/reconnect to that 'session'. > It is very usefull in this type of situation. > > Regards, > Mat Thanks, thats been it. It's working perfectly, the only issue is that i am not able to detach a session which i am in. konsole seems not to pass the Ctrl-a Ctrl-d command to screen via ssh. cu Dieter -- Frank Castle is dead! Call me 'The PUNISHER'!