[H-GEN] Foregrounding a task
Edwin Groothuis
edwin at mavetju.org
Mon Apr 24 07:11:54 EDT 2006
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 08:18:54PM +1000, Geoff Shang wrote:
> I was running a process on a remote machine when my host went down. The
> process on the remote box still shows as running, but I can't see any way
> of foregrounding it so I can save my work. Experimenting with signals
> using another instance of the program merely results in either exits or
> suspends, but maybe there's a signal that I should try that I haven't (I've
> tried CONT).
Once lost you will never regain it.
But you can cheat by running these long-lasting tasks with screen
(ports/sysutils/screen on FreeBSD)
Edwin
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