background task to wget Fedora 18

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> said:
> Well the new release is out, and I am away at IEEE 802 wireless meeting 
> across the continent from my server.
> 
> Normally when I am fetching a new distro, I am local and VNC into my 
> server (over SSH), open a terminal window and start the wget.  At any 
> time I can reopen a VNC connection and see how the download(s) is 
> doing.

Check out "screen".  It is a terminal multiplexer that supports detach
and re-attach ("control-A d" detaches and "screen -r" re-attaches).

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.