freebsd stable - Nov 2004 - Grabbing hold of logged out but active tty

UpOnlineHi,

  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.

  Thank you,

  Oren

> 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.

Am 13.11.2004 um 20:08 schrieb Oren Baum:
> UpOnlineHi,
>
>   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.
If you regularly have long-running sessions, and you might need to 
disconnect from and reconnect to them, you should start them from 
within screen (misc/screen).

If you have really important things in that session right now that you 
can only recover immediatly, you could try the snp(4) device together 
with watch(8) to hook onto the tty, but your success might be limited 
by the fact that the tty is effectivly closed. snp(4) can be loaded as 
a module.


Good luck,
Stefan

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