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Date:      Sat, 13 Nov 2004 13:20:42 -0800
From:      "Darren Pilgrim" <dmp@bitfreak.org>
To:        "'Oren Baum'" <obaum@uponline.com>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Grabbing hold of logged out but active tty
Message-ID:  <000201c4c9c6$a529e3b0$142a15ac@spud>
In-Reply-To: <001901c4c9b4$260aba30$6500a8c0@CIClaptop>

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> From: Oren Baum
> 
>   I'm running 4.10 and was wondering if there's a trick to 
> regaining control of another tty session that is still 
> running (under ps) but I (the user) have been logged out. 
> This happens to me on occasion when I'm running some programs 
> in the background and am logged out by the shell.

Kill the background processes in question.  The tty will be returned to the
pool automatically.



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