On Feb 15, 2004, at 9:39 PM, Joshua Coombs wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim McNamara" <timmcn@bitstream.net>
> To: <port-mac68k@NetBSD.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 3:22 PM
> Subject: Question about X
>
>> Is it possible to start processes in X, then leave X and return to the
>> console shell, and preserve the processes started in X?  I couldn't
>> find anything specifically about this in the docs.

> If a console app, fire it up in screen, then detach the screen.  You
> can reconnect to the session at any time or even have mulitple
> connections at once viewing the same app.  For X apps, fire them up
> against a VNC virtual framebuffer and view with a VNC client,
> connecting and disconnecting at will.

Thanks,  what I was wondering about was an *existing* process- e.g., 
I'm running a compile in an xterm which seems to be running far, far 
slower than it ought (more than 24 hours now) and thinking that 
eliminating competing processes such as the X server, xterms, etc., 
might help speed things up.

As far as the other stuff you mentioned, I have no idea whatsoever 
about how to do any of those things...  ;-)  Heck, I can't even make 
sendmail go away and stop bitching about being unable to qualify the 
hostname despite using every command line argument I've been able to 
find in the docs and on the Web, and putting "sendmail=NO" in rc.conf 
and rebooting.  It's "the sendmail that wouldn't die."  :-O