From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 29 17:59:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81C3137B401 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 17:59:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A7F228E7C; Wed, 29 May 2002 20:59:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 20:59:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Bill Moran Cc: Stephen Hovey , Daniel Blankensteiner , Daniel Geske , FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: Send process to background [using bg] In-Reply-To: <3CF568D7.2090809@potentialtech.com> Message-ID: <20020529205643.M77775-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com 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 On Wed, 29 May 2002, Bill Moran wrote: > 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. A good answer, but it is nevertheless incomplete. If you use tcsh as your shell, and issue the CTRL-Z suspend keystroke, it depends on what comprises your command line (i.e. which binaries) whether you will be able to successfully "bg %1" or "bg %2" etc... Some commands are waiting on user intervention and input and as such, cannot be selectively-after-the-fact-nohupped. If you get my drift. :) -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message