Compiling Gnome: Tricky business with SSH

danthehat · 09-25-2006, 03:40 AM

As it turns out, emerging gnome on Gentoo with KDE already built is a bit trickier than I thought. The process will stop every so often to tell me that I need to emerge this package with this use flag. Today, I'll be gone for most of the day, and I was wondering if there was a way I could monitor the emerge process via SSH? Of course, I could look at ps -a and figure out whats what, but could I actually see all that wonderful stuff flitting in and out of my screen? Really does make me happy, that.

Thanks,
dTh

bernied · 09-25-2006, 07:33 AM

Use screen.

Code:

emerge screen
screen -R
emerge whatever

Ctrl-A-D detaches the screen, but everything keeps going in it. Then when you ssh in, you just:

Code:

screen -R

EDIT: typos

bernied · 09-25-2006, 07:37 AM

I also like watching all that magic go past. Especially when it changes from 'Emerging (4 of 123)' to 'Emerging (5 of 123)'.

danthehat · 09-25-2006, 07:48 AM

Wonderful stuff, thanks!