Launching Apps

rjkfsm · 07-01-2005, 08:36 AM

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

trickykid · 07-01-2005, 09:24 AM

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.

rjkfsm · 07-11-2005, 01:57 PM

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

RK

cs-cam · 07-11-2005, 08:44 PM

This also would've worked:

Code:

export ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"
nohup emerge kde-meta