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End process from another SSH window

I forgot to use screen and I have a task that has been running for quite some time, and I do not want to lose the saved data. Basically Ctrlc will end the task and save the data if I am on the same ...
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How to stop a infinite running process (ztail) started by a ssh session after that session is closed

I have a peculiar problem. My server supports multiple ssh session simultaneously, so that multiple admins can manage (via command line interface) it simultaneously. We have a command which calls ...
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How can I send data to the STDIN of a background process?

I'm trying to: Launch several ssh sessions (processes) through a script (Python) Communicate with the sessions by sending them commands via STDIN (even though they aren't open in my current ...
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killing a process on a remote machine when the machine is stuck

I started a very resources-consuming process on a remote server via ssh. It is an optimization problem run in MATLAB. It takes full memory and CPU. In fact, I am not even able to ssh to the machine, ...
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How is FireFox running on a virtual machine that has no display?

I am using a Red Hat virtual machine, accessible only remotely. However when I use the top command, one of the displayed processes taking up the most memory is firefox, located at ...
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controlling a process from a different session

So, I ssh into my remote computer and launch a process... time passes... my ssh session breaks. I log in again, and of course, I don't have access to the original process now. I can see it still if I ...
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How can I make a process I start during an SSH session run after the session has ended? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Keep SSH Sessions running after disconnection. I have a process which is basically a web-server, I start it during an SSH session. However, when I leave the session (by ...
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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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Keep SSH Sessions running after disconnection

I sometimes have long running processes that I want to kick off before going home, so I create a SSH session to the server to start the process, but then I want to close my laptop and go home and ...