screen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Screen On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825 at gmail.com> wrote: > I connect to a remote server regularly and use its spare CPU to do video > transcoding. I use MEncoder to do the video portion and the primary > problem I have is that I can may time out randomly (I'm behind a router > running DD-WRT, so maybe it's related to the problem Jon Schewe posted > about) and when that happens, I have to start the encode over (this is > especially frustrating when doing a 3-hour event from a BD or 1080i TV > cap). Adding & to the end of my command has two problems. First, the > constantly updated status line with percent finished and other important > information is still written to the terminal and covers up any commands > I type as well as any output a command gives. Second, this does not > prevent MEncoder from stopping if I time out anyway. I find that the > only way to prevent MEncoder from stopping is to add & to the command > and exit the terminal. My script with MEncoder will still run in the > background whether I'm connected or not, but I then have no way to see > the status line again. Ideally, I want to reattach the status line to a > terminal so I can see it and then detach it and send it back into the > background. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- steve ulrich (sulrich at botwerks.*)