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Date:      Wed, 29 May 2002 19:43:50 -0400
From:      Chris Ptacek <cptacek@sitaranetworks.com>
To:        "'Daniel Geske'" <danielgeske@gmx.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Send process to background
Message-ID:  <31269226357BD211979E00A0C9866DAB02BB98EE@rios.sitaranetworks.com>

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I believe bg is what you want.  
I haven't really used it, just a faint memory.  
Try a man on bg for more info (puts you into the csh man page, just look for
bg)

  - Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Geske [mailto:danielgeske@gmx.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 4:25 PM
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: Send process to background
> 
> 
> 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" <danielgeske@gmx.net>
> > > > 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
> > >
> > >
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