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Hopefully this is an easy question:

I am SSH'ing into a Gentoo box and want to kick off a full compile of KDE. Needless to say, this is going to take HOURS. I don't want to have to leave the connection running. How do I lauch the command "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge kde-meta" to run in the background so that I can disconnect?

RK

use screen..

$ screen
$ <command>
<ctrl-a + ctrl-d> = detaches
$ exit


And upon login at same location or another location:

$ screen -r = will reattach you to your running screen session.

man screen for more details.

Thanks. After 'ls', 'screen' is now my favorite console tool.

RK

This also would've worked:
:)