I repeatedly have this problem, so I'd like to know how to take care of this. I find myself using ssh on my home network quite frequently because my older pc is difficult to work at. My problem is that I will start a process (in this case a make) on this older pc using ssh. This older pc is real slow and so these processes take a lot longer than anticipated. If I shut down the pc I started the ssh on then I'm thinking it will kill the make process. So how can I pause the make on my new pc (the one I started the ssh session on) and resume it on the slower pc?

you can use the 'nohup' command along with "&" (to run the job in the background).
The nohup command allows you to run a command immune to hangups, meaning that when
you logout (whether it be an ssh session or locally) the command will continue to run.

good luck

-tank

Or use screen, that will let you deattach/reattach sessions. A real console window manager

Edit: Read in Kristijan's link the section "What screen is good for" and you'll understand better what I meant in my post

Hi linuxhippy,

LQ.org's tutorial section has a quick write up on how to use screen[1]. Well worth the read!

Regards,
-Kristijan

[1] - http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...icle&artid=297

this looks good-thanx!