From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 29 16:45:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from infinity.aesredfish.net (ns1.aesredfish.net [65.168.0.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0019E37B40A for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 16:44:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from potentialtech.com (mhope-dhcp-65-168-1-181.dashfast.com [65.168.1.181]) by infinity.aesredfish.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g4TNgqU22031; Wed, 29 May 2002 19:42:53 -0400 Message-ID: <3CF568D7.2090809@potentialtech.com> Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 19:48:39 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020502 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Hovey Cc: Daniel Blankensteiner , Daniel Geske , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Send process to background References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Stephen Hovey wrote: > No I guess I didnt.. he wants to detach from something already started > with his session that wasnt nohupped before.. It might have been some > linux shell itself that did this if 'screen' isnt the right answer.. > perhaps a feature of bash (Ive no idea - I use sh) If running bash, CTRL-Z will suspend the process and return you to a command prompt. You can then issue "bg" to tell the process to resume running in the background. I don't know how well (or if) this works in other shells. > > On Thu, 30 May 2002, Daniel Blankensteiner wrote: > > >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Daniel Geske" >> >>>Daniel: Thanks for you reply. >>>Hm. Looks like daemon is a function, not a command. I guess I'll just turn >>>off the client and go to bed for now (it's 1:15AM). >> >>Ups, sorry, Stephen Hovey has the rigth answer :-) >> >>br >>db >> >> >>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 > > -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message