From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Aug 17 17:12:14 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3877CDCAA7E for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2017 17:12:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fquest@paz.bz) Received: from mailb.haidagwaii.net (mail.haidagwaii.net [23.235.65.79]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1E65D803E4 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2017 17:12:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fquest@paz.bz) Received: from 254-68-235-23.haidagwaii.net ([23.235.68.254] helo=[192.168.1.8]) by mailb.haidagwaii.net with esmtp (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1diO7r-000MZY-7W; Thu, 17 Aug 2017 09:58:31 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jim Pazarena Subject: suspending a running task Message-ID: <15fb52c8-3a90-31c8-a6ca-b4bb2422b2a1@paz.bz> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 09:58:14 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-local_scan: locally submitted (54) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 17:12:14 -0000 Is there any way that root can suspend a task executed by someone else? In other words, not a program running direct from the console, but just any task presently running where the SysAdmin has a desire to temporarily suspend it. -- Jim Pazarena fquest@paz.bz