Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 12:29:37 -0500 (CDT) From: Jason Nugent <malhavoc@stomped.com> To: Peter Brezny <peter@sysadmin-inc.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: background jobs Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0107031228260.60480-100000@smithers.stomped.com> In-Reply-To: <NFBBKAEAALGGGFKINBLAIEMCCAAA.peter@sysadmin-inc.com>
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The short answer, is, you can't (I think). The job has lost it's controlling tty, and you can't get it back. When I want to run a job interactively and be able to log out, I usually just screen it in the background. Check out screen in the ports collection if you haven't played with it already. HTH, Jason On Tue, 3 Jul 2001 at 12:28pm, Peter Brezny thought about > I sent a job into the background, logged off from the machine, logged back > in, and now typing fg or bg tells me there are no jobs in the background, > yet, i know they are running since I can see them with top. > > How can I access those jobs again? > > TIA > > Peter Brezny > SysAdmin Services Inc. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > ---------------------- Jason Nugent Aka MalHavoc Server Programmer and Administrator S T O M P E D . C O M For PGP public key: http://malhavoc.stomped.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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