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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Ondra Tomecka <otom7630 AT lucy.troja.mff.cuni.cz>:
> Hi,
> 
> Did you try ctrl-Z to stop the casting? I use it from time to time without 
> any problems. This suspends the process, and when you need to continue, 
> just use fg command to put the process to the foreground again. However, 
> this requires that you don't shut your machine down ;-) But with notebooks 
> this shouldn't be problem, as you can just suspend and resume again when 
> you arrive to destination. This way I currently have uptime 57 days 21 
> hours on my notebook. Next reboot planned when kernel 2.6.8 is out :)

This is also what I do for my notebook. :)

If you're wanting to do something similar on a desktop, use `screen`. Run your
cast command in there, then when you have to leave disconnect (CTRL+D), go
home, SSH into your remote machine, and reconnect (`screen -r`). :)

-sandalle

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