Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 01:23:45 -0600 From: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Change process from foreground to background? Message-ID: <20011117012342.A16515@northernbrewer.com>
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I'm sitting at my workstation and I ssh into server 1 and start running a long dump, expected to take 3 hours. About 30 minutes into the dump, I decide I want to install a new SCSI card in my workstation, and would like to shutdown the computer. Doing so would kill my dump operation, however. Is there any way to force my dump process into the background after it has started running? I'm thinking there may be a clever way to transfer 'ownership' of the process from the shell to init... (After playing around a bit, I *think* that `kill -ABRT <shell-pid>` does what I am looking for. But this is obviously a nasty hack.) -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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