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compiling taking a long time, anyway to check progress
asterisk14
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i was insatlling a package/compiling under centos 6. the author says i can take a few hours or a few days. i closed the ssh session whilst it was compiling, didn't want my laptop on for a few days. i've opened a ssh session today and obviously got the $ prompt. is there any way to check if the compiling is still going on today?
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Did you background the task or use screen? if not it probably stopped the moment you closed your ssh session.
The processes should be killed whenever you log out of the SSH session. Use screen.
i was logged in vis ssh in a normal session. gave the command to compile or build and then closed the putty session after 6 hours. it was taking ages! does that mean that when i type 'yum update' or 'yum upgrade' and it's installing stuff, if i close my ssh session in putty, does that process get cancelled???? i thought it would just carry on !!!!!
how do u do the backgroud thing?
man screen
As some suggested run your background processes inside screen
http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_screen
ok thanks, i'm a linux noob! ASTLINUX takes ages !!!!!!!
What sort of software takes days to compile...?
@awson ASTLINUX follwowing this guide http://doc.astlinux.org/devdoc:documentation?rev=1321801531#prerequisites
you can nohup a background process, but if you want to use a multiplexer, do yourself a favor, use tmux, it's much better than screen.