Stupid post but I am waiting on a couple of programs to compile and thought I would ask... How long can you stare at a terminal screen? I have been now for about 16 hours, oh and I have been for 16 hours each day for the last 3 days.

Ok so I am a rookie compared to some of you but hey its a try. Man I hate it when a upstream bandwidth provider goes bankrupt, that makes for alot of work for me. But hey at least I get to work in a place that encourages me to learn and work with linux servers.

So whats your record for working at a terminal screen, You are allow to include term in Xwindows as long as you were just using the terminal and not an gui stuff. Me personally I am using serveral terms on 4 different computers in a circle around me :-)

Stare at a terminal screen about 15 min a day. I usally stare at a gui 4 hours a day.

Holy s***. What the hell are you compiling?
The longest time I have waited for a prog to compile was an hour of five for kde 3.1 . Didn't stair at the console the hole time though.

About 36 hours when I did a system update with gentoo.Didn't stare at it all the time though - had a couple beers in between staring.I'll go to morocco now and stare at looms for a while for a change.

Cross compiling OpenOffice is 25 hours on a PIII. WHat fun!

No, No, I was not just compiling one program, that was what I was doing at the moment I was posting. I have been figureing out how to do qmail, vpopmail, vqadmin, with pop3d and imap all logging into a mysql database, and using squirrelmail as the imap webmail client.

I am happy to report that I got it all figured out last night and is all working, now I just have to wait for the dns to filter through the internet.

Ohh and on top of trying to get that stuff working, I have had to add over 50 websites to the server and set up logging for each and transfer the site from a windows server to the linux server, so needless to say its been some long days.

Oh, well seems like there are a few guys that really were compiling for that long. 25 hours, 36 hours. O my god!!
O well. Cheers that you figured it all out. Don't forget to take a break one in a while.

Well I am glad for this site make a good place to rest the mind while compiling something in the background and also saves me countless hours on the stupid stuff I just never seem to remember.

Now to virusscanning email and spamchecking and figuring out the best way to set up 200+ domains with squirrelmail

When I compie something (let's say KDE), I switch to another console and start doing something different. My machines are always compiling something, in fact...

You switch to another console? What a great idea!



Q*Bert

or read a book.

There's a problem when there are no free consoles. It happens to me from time to time...

Then you'd have to look at the scrolling gcc messages like the rest of us.

I like acid2000's suggestion of reading a book though. That's a good one. Taking a stroll outside might be another way.

My current favorate is to thump my head off the keyboard or monitor while trying to get whatever the problem of the day fixed on my 30th xterm, as I said above I usually have several xterms going on 4 different computers into one of my servers.

man screen

there's no such thing as a lack of free consoles.