Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 13:11:58 +1100 From: Nick Slager <nicks@albury.net.au> To: Matt Rudderham <matt@researcher.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Putting a Process Into Background Message-ID: <20001211131158.C77951@albury.net.au> In-Reply-To: <NDBBLEKOOLGIBFPGLFEKKEBECKAA.matt@researcher.com>; from matt@researcher.com on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 10:01:42PM -0400 References: <NDBBLEKOOLGIBFPGLFEKKEBECKAA.matt@researcher.com>
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Thus spake Matt Rudderham (matt@researcher.com): > I was wondering how to put a process that initially requires some imput, but > then will run on its own into the background to free up the terminal. It's a > setiathome process, as well as another similar one. Basically I'd like > something like ^Z that will give me a shell, but let the process run and not > stop it, preferrably to be able to use fg to bring it back to take a peek at > it. Have a look at screen. It's in the ports collection. Regards, Nick -- From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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