remote freeBSD device. I am ssh'd in as root and running cgsecurity's TESTDISK program. Testdisk will take DAYS to scan this multi-terabyte RAID. Can I quit my terminal or ssh connection, disconnect from the remote computer, come back to it later and NOT stop or interrupt the program running on the remote machine? And when I log back in, can I re-access the interface of the program?
If it were a brief app, I'd just experiment and see, but this is day 3 of a 7-day scan!
It looks like nohup has to be used when the app/process is started, and I'm in the middle of a recover, not starting it.
Is there a way to shut down my terminal session withOUT stopping the running process on the remote computer, and a way that I can return to see the results of that process (testdisk updates the terminal screen as it scans cylinders, etc)?
TIA
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Thanks Pludi,
looks like screen also needs to be up adn going before the process is running, but it will help in the future!
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I want to be clear in describing what I am doing, so here goes again:
I fired up a terminal session in Mac OS X
then ssh'd into a remote device:
Then got the freeNAS prompt:
I then installed Testdisk (MY FIRST UNIX INSTALL!!!) from the ports
Next I ran testdisk:
and got the testdisk interface:
Selected my options and got the scan going....
Now I am waiting while a lovely and simple text screen rolls through thousands of blocks an hour, stuck. Unable (I THINK) to disconnect from the remote device without interrupting testdisk.