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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, ...
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Difference between nohup, disown and &
What is the difference between
$ nohup foo
and
$ foo &
and
$ foo &
$ disown
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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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How to suspend and bring a background process to foreground
I have a process originally running in the foreground. I suspended by Ctrl+Z, and then resume its running in the background by bg <jobid>.
I wonder how to suspend a process running in the ...
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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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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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What is the difference between a job and a process?
What is the difference between a "job" and a "process"?
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Concept of controlling terminal in Unix
Can some one please explain in an easy to understand way the concept of controlling terminal in unix and unix like systems ? Is it related to a session ? If yes, then how ?
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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
In the bash terminal I can hit Control+Z to suspend any running proccess... then I can type fg to resume the proccess.
Is it possible to suspend a process if I only have it's PID? And if so, what ...
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Background task finished notification syntax
Last night, before abandoning my computer for the evening, I started a bunch of compiler jobs so they'd be ready in the morning, using make -f alpha.mak &>alpha.out &. When I came back and ...
