Jay <slushpupie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/18/05, Tom Marble <tmarble at info9.net> wrote:
>>I'm trying to upgrade libc6 in my UML session at Real-Time
>>from  libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 to libc6_2.3.5-6 but this never
>>completes successfully.
> 
> this wont work, since when SSH disconnects, your terminal goes away.
> Backgrounding a process dosnt detach it from the terminal.
> 
> Take a look at screen. It will let you truely leave a session detached.

It's a good point.. I did write a python script that does the fork twice
trick to insure detachment.

But ultimately it was a lack of swap space that caused dpkg to fail.
The Real-Time guys found this and fixed it (and I've learned a lot
about UML in the process).

Thanks!

--Tom