Re: 'fg'ing a PID


Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:16:03 -0600 (MDT)


On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Evan Read wrote:

>
> A general question for you all.
>
> I have logged into an old Linux box (slackware 2.0xxx kernal) and ran
> rc5des client. Anyways, when I log off, the thing keeps running. I
> forget what they call that but it is great!

It's called "screen". We ship it with YDL; very handy tool.

>
> Anyways, I would like to foreground it so I can see how it is doing. But
> I can't work out how to fg it...
>
> it has no job number ecause it was launched during a previous login that I
> terminated. I run "ps -aux" and find the PIDs, but "fg pidno" doesn't
> work.
>

Foreground processes are killed when you logout (of the shell that
executed the process)

>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Evan Read
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Dan

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