I always got into the habit of running these types of commands with nohup and 
redirecting the output.

I would usally then run a tail -f to watch it.

Doing this saved me a couple of times <G>.



On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 00:34:54 +1000, Yuhico, Alexandra wrote:

>that's another problem. when i ran the unloaddb i ran it through a telnet
>putty screen... i left it open but i think the telnet putty timed-out and i
>couldn't get my session back.  i only knew that the program was running
>through ps -elf and ps aux.
>
>when the unloaddb finally finished, i just searched all the error logs to
>look for anything relevant to the unloaddb activity.
>
>i'm doing something really risky.... i just hope this works.



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