[Sussex] linux process management

[Richie Jarvis]

stuart nixon wrote:

>Hello All, I have a couple of questions:
>
>1) How can you  "nohup" an an already running background job ( eg started with 
>" myjob.sh &" ) so as to prevent it from being killed should the terminal 
>hangup? (eg GPRS blackspot)
>
>2) You have a process running via a ssh login session (eg /dev/pts/0) you then 
>login (say when u get home) via ssh to tty /dev/pts/3 - how can you "move" 
>the jobs running on /dev/pts/0 so that they are owned now by /dev/pts/3 (your 
>current login session)?
>
>I currently use nohup when i know a job will take some time and that i could 
>be logged off before it finishes.
>
>Sometimes I forget to nohup the job, sometime i am physically not in front of 
>a terminal that's running a job.
>
>What i would like to do is "take over" a process so that stdio is connected to 
>my current tty.
>
>Are there any specific commands that would perform this task - i guess some 
>ioctl calls could implement this? if so does anyone have any pointers to 
>relevent documentation?
>
>Many thanks in advance
>
>  
>
The animal you are searching for, I believe, is screen, which allows you 
to detach and reattach from a terminal session....

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