Sorry, I must have miswrote my message. When I said 'release', I meant release
it from the terminal window. That is, say I netscape &, then gcalc &, then
xemacs &, and then I want to close the terminal window without closing all
three other programs. my message was in response to the discussion about
nohup, which lets you start a process that won't be killed on terminal
hangups. I would like a way to do nohup, except after the process is already
running.
Any ideas? Thanks.
Warren
Randy Edwards wrote:
> > If that's not possible, is there a way to release a specific
> > process after it's already running?
>
> You'll want to read up on the "ps" and "kill" commands.
>
> ps is "Process Status" and will list out various processes on the
> system. Handy switches are "a" (a=all processes), "x" (x=processes without
> a controlling tty), and "u" (u=list users controlling the process). So ps
> will show you what's running and one of the things it'll show is the process
> ID (PID).
>
> The kill command takes a PID number and will kill the process. There's
> many ways to kill, ranging from nice (i.e. "Please stop what you're doing,
> close up your files, and shut yourself down, thanks.") to nasty (i.e.
> "You're terminated sucker!"). "man kill" will fill you in on the gory
> details.
>
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