Also- nohup setsid <command name>
is a simple and quick way to acheive this for new processes. Cheers Awais Ahmad ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Stephen Touset" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 3:37 PM Subject: Re: Detaching and reattaching a process to different terminals? > The program your looking for (for in the future) is called screen. > apt-get install screen > > >From the package description: > "screen is a terminal multiplexor that runs several separate "screens" > on a single physical character-based terminal. Each virtual terminal > emulates a DEC VT100 plus several ANSI X3.64 and ISO 2022 functions. > Screen sessions can be detached and resumed later on a different > terminal." > > Run screen first. Then it will give you a shell again. > Run whatever app you want on that terminal. > > To detach, hit control-a then d > To reattach, run screen -r > (-r for resume, control-a is the command char to screen, and d is detach) > You can also hit control-a ? in screen for more commands. > > As I said, as you have to run screen first, this won't help with your > current problem, but in the future it may. > > Another handy feature is you can have up to 10 terminals in one screen season. > Tons of other useful features as well. > > GNU Screen: an introduction and beginner's tutorial > http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/3/9/16838/14935 > > > On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 09:00:46 -0400, Stephen Touset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm running a program for a research study I'm involved in, but I've run > > into a slight problem. I executed it on an xterm (and it's been running > > for a few days now, so I don't want to stop it mid-calculation), but > > today is a workday. At work, I use two screens on my laptop. The only > > way to accomplish this is to restart X so Xinerama can take effect. > > Unfortunately, this will also have the nasty side effect of killing > > execution. > > > > Is there any way to detach the pid from that terminal and reattach it to > > one of the consoles? Or background it in a way where it will survive X > > restarting? It's not critical, but it's something I've wondered before, > > and which will come in extremely handy today. > > > > -- > > Stephen Touset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
