Can this be done using freebsd?

[LuckyTaxi]

I am trying to download ISOs for Severn onto one of our servers at work. I normally use putty to ssh in, but if I started the downloaded and close putty I would lose the connection, thus terminating the download process. can't i put the "job" in the background and it'll finish and i dont have to worry about leaving my PC up?

 

[Nothinman]

That would probably require starting the download with nohup, but I'd rather use screen though.

 

[CTho9305]

nohup foo >& /dev/null

 

[LuckyTaxi]

or install wget and run a cron job to download it

 

[drag]

I vote for screen personally.

Screen is for terminals what window managers are for X. You can have multiple virtual terminals on a single terminal to make multi tasking easier... Think of a stack of papers one on top of each other and you switch between the pages with ctrl-A plus another button key combinations... You can also divide up Screen's "screen" in half, 3rds, or fourths to have mutliple terminals displayed at the same time.


The best part is that if you get disconnected (say you turn off putty, or your connection gets dropped) screen still sits there plugging away with all your stuff running just like you were there looking at it, until you log on again and do a "screen -r" to get all your stuff back. (of course if your ssh/terminal server reboots you lose the session.)