From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 3 10:29:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smithers.stomped.com (smithers.stomped.com [216.17.56.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A98037B403 for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 10:29:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malhavoc@stomped.com) Received: (qmail 60688 invoked by uid 1041); 3 Jul 2001 17:29:37 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Jul 2001 17:29:37 -0000 Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 12:29:37 -0500 (CDT) From: Jason Nugent To: Peter Brezny Cc: Subject: Re: background jobs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The short answer, is, you can't (I think). The job has lost it's controlling tty, and you can't get it back. When I want to run a job interactively and be able to log out, I usually just screen it in the background. Check out screen in the ports collection if you haven't played with it already. HTH, Jason On Tue, 3 Jul 2001 at 12:28pm, Peter Brezny thought about > I sent a job into the background, logged off from the machine, logged back > in, and now typing fg or bg tells me there are no jobs in the background, > yet, i know they are running since I can see them with top. > > How can I access those jobs again? > > TIA > > Peter Brezny > SysAdmin Services Inc. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > ---------------------- Jason Nugent Aka MalHavoc Server Programmer and Administrator S T O M P E D . C O M For PGP public key: http://malhavoc.stomped.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message