From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 10 9:22:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFFED37B423 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:22:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from slate.dublin.wbtsystems.com (slate.dublin.wbtsystems.com [193.120.231.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EF8443EAF for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:22:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com) Received: from spiral (spiral.dublin.wbtsystems.com [193.120.231.190]) (authenticated bits=0) by slate.dublin.wbtsystems.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9AGMcU2076823; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 17:22:38 +0100 (IST) From: "Barry Byrne" To: "David Banning" , Subject: RE: disappearing job Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 17:22:36 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <20021010121114.A6678@skytrackercanada.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal X-WBT-Authenticated-User: bb X-Scanned-By: slate/MIMEDefang 2.21 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) 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 Did you do Alt + Fn perhaps? On a console this generally lets you switch to another virtual console. Try Alt + F1 to bring you back? - Barry -- Barry Byrne, IT Manager, WBT Systems, Block 2, Harcourt Centre Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, Ireland > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of David Banning > Sent: 10 October 2002 17:11 > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: disappearing job > > > I was editing a job in vi, then my hand slipped and I was back at > the shell. When I went to edit the file again, it said the file was > locked. A "ps ax | grep vi" showed that the application was still > running. Where did it go? > > 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