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Subject: RE: Grabbing hold of logged out but active tty
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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.