From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 29 16:31:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC58537B403 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 16:31:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA64982; Wed, 29 May 2002 19:31:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 19:31:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Hovey To: Daniel Geske Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Send process to background In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020530012346.00a28ec0@pop.gmx.net> 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 I misread... I THINK 'screen' might be what you need - I have a dim memory of not installing it simply because a user could flip out of a session and not realise they left junk running. On Thu, 30 May 2002, Daniel Geske wrote: > nohup creates a new process, I want to move a process that is already running. > Am I wrong? > > Thanks, > > Daniel > > At 07:20 PM 5/29/02 -0400, you wrote: > > >I think he means > > > >nohup /path/program & > > > > > >On Thu, 30 May 2002, Daniel Blankensteiner wrote: > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Daniel Geske" > > > > I wondered whether you can send a process to the background as easy > > as you > > > > can in linux. I remember someone once showed me how to do it on > > linux, but > > > > I forgot how to do it. It was very simple, just two keys... > > > > Can I do something like that in FreeBSD? > > > > The situation here is like this: I started a process on the server from a > > > > client machine, but now need to turn off that client. I don't want to > > stop > > > > the process on the server though. It should continue to run instead > > > > (independent from the user that started it or the terminal it was started > > > > from). > > > > I am looking forward to ansers. > > > > > > Maybe daemon(3) is the thing you need? > > > > > > > Sincerely > > > > Daniel Geske > > > > > > br > > > Daniel Blankensteiner > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message