john-users - Re: getting cracking speed info with nohup

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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:43:34 +0100
From: Simon Marechal <simon@...quise.net>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: getting cracking speed info with nohup

Hari Sekhon wrote:
> When running nohup ./john passwdfile &, how can I found out the speed of
> the cracking the way you can when you just run ./john passwdfile and
> press enter to see what it is trying and how many combinations a second
> is is doing..?

as explained previously it's easier to use a "screen". If you want to do
this, you'll have to alter signal.c and register a new signal handler
that will do:

event_status = event_pending = 1;

or something like that :)