Bringing Process back from the dead!

MiCr0 · 18-02-2002 9:39am #1

Hi,
is there any way to "bring back" a process that was running in a term, but which the term has died?

i can see that its still running fine, but i can't get access to the term to get to it.

thoughts?

//david

lynchie · 18-02-2002 4:57pm

Hi,

In future if you use screen (bundled with rh7.2 www.rpmfind.net for other distros) to start the process, you can detach and attach back to it as often as you want. Im not sure if you can attach to it if the binary was not started with screen.

Lynchie

MiCr0 · 18-02-2002 5:01pm

the whole problem is that i can't detach.
the term is dead

Catch_22 · 20-02-2002 12:30pm

fg , man(1) - foreground

a ver old unix command, dunno if it exists on linux or not but its definately on solaris

c22

MiCr0 · 20-02-2002 12:40pm

doesn't work either
it will only work if its been bg

flamegrill · 21-02-2002 1:58pm

MiCr0, the only way to bring a process back from the dead once the term has died is to usually use fg. But since it wasn't ctl +z or u didnt use bg to send it to the background, nor did you or do you use screen, it can not be brought back to life. If it is running some calculations ask it to give up nicely, ie use "killall program name" which asks the process to finish up and write files and stuff and then die. if this doesnt work, im afraid u mite as well just kill -9 it and start again. But using screen is a must, especially when you keep loosing terms. USE screen IT doesnt BITE!!!

flamey

MiCr0 · 21-02-2002 2:14pm

screen doesn't work with bitchx though!

Trojan · 21-02-2002 2:28pm

Not mad helpful for your situation, but I'm following the rule "if it could be relevant, it is".

http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=879/ddj0011g/0011g.htm

Al.

flamegrill · 21-02-2002 2:29pm

What are you blathering about man. of course Screen works with BitchX, how in the hell do i keep a 24/7/365 presence on irc if screen didnt work with BitchX.
Screen is a virtual terminal program and will work with any unix app. its just like a shell, but its intelligent and will let you conect back to it at a later stage.

Bringing Process back from the dead!

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