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Can I transfer running process from dead ssh [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I disown a running process and associate it to a new screen shell? I have started (as expected) a long copy process from ssh shell (putty) which died due to ...
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Application in terminal still running but not directly accessible [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to suspend and bring a background process to foreground I have kind of an odd problem which I haven't encountered before. Here's what I did: I started an ...
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How do I detach a process from its parent? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I disown a running process and associate it to a new screen shell? The problem is that the process is not a job inside of my active shell (as I've logged in from ...
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What happens to the output of a process that has been disowned and lost its terminal?

If I close the virtual terminal, where some process was started, does the output just go straight to /dev/null, or can it pollute memory somehow? Can I anyhow grab the output to continue reading it at ...
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Is it possible to transfer a running process to your terminal? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I pause up a running process over ssh, disown it, associate it to a new screen shell and unpause it? It is fairly easy to disown a process, or make it run ...
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How to suspend and resume proccesses like bash does

this question is a follow-up to: How to suspend and resume proccesses I have started firefox from a bash session in gnome-terminal. The proccess tree looks like this: $ ps -e -o pid,ppid,cmd -H ...
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Difference between process group and job?

What's the difference between a process group and a job? If I type pr * | lpr then is it both a process group as well a job? What exactly is the difference between a process group ID and a job ID? ...
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How can I close a terminal without killing its children (without running `screen` first)?

sometimes I run an app in the gnome-terminal, but then I suddenly have to restart gnome or something. I guess the answer to the question is also useful then I want to disconnect from SSH where ...
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What is the difference between a job and a process?

What is the difference between a "job" and a "process"?
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How can I disown a running process and associate it to a new screen shell?

I have a running program on a SSH shell. I want to pause it and be able to unpause its execution when I come back. One way I thought of doing that was to transfer its ownership to a screen shell, ...