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I use screen ssh to remotely start processes that take multiple days. I ssh in, start multiple processes in the background, and detach with CRTL+A d. I don't know why, but after a certain amount of time 'screen -r' doesn't resume the screen, although the process is still running (I can scp the data it's producing; all looks good). That's fine.

However, the jobs are very processing heavy and I want to be able to stop them. How do I do that? Like I said, screen -r doesn't work. ssh'ing in again and typing ps doesn't show them.

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  • And kill -9 does not work?
    – mdpc
    Dec 5, 2014 at 17:09

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You are using screen the wrong way.

You should connect with ssh and start screen on the remote system (or reattach to it). On the remote system you should open a new screen window for each process. Thus there is no need to run them in the background.

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  • Thanks. That makes sense. If I started the processes like above, do you know how I'd stop them?
    – R Greg Stacey
    Dec 5, 2014 at 18:17
  • @Qroid The first try should be Ctrl-c as usual. You can also kill the whole window with ^A k which usually kills the processes which belong to this terminal (by SIGHUP). But the question how to kill is not related to the usage of screen.
    – Hauke Laging
    Dec 5, 2014 at 18:33

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