Put a running build in the background

[l_bratch]

Say I kicked off an emerge of something huge like xorg-x11 on another machine over an ssh session, but needed to logoff the machine I was sitting at, how would I tell the sshd machine (doing the emerging) to put the emerge into the background (similar to as if I had launched it with emerge xorg-x11 &) so that I could log out of ssh but leave the emerging running? If such a thing is possible I assume I'd need to create a new ssh session into the emerging machine, but then what?

[Enforcer]

You can use screen to do so. After you logged in over ssh execute screen and use it like a normal terminal. To detach the terminal type Ctrl+A+D, to reattach it (after you logged in again) type screen -R.

So long,
Enforcer

[BlackEdder]

BTW emerge xorg-x11 & will still be stopped when you disconnect from ssh. You need nohup to do that.

[l_bratch]

Thanks both of you - it looks like in future I'll use screen.

But for the example of an already running process, with the ctrl+z then nohup %1, I get:

[BlackEdder]

You are right. I guessed that it would work like that, but apparently not Then I don't think you can detach already running processes

[l_bratch]

Ok thanks for trying, at least I now know about the screen method for future referance.