On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Kapil Hari Paranjape <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello, > > On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Sivakumar Gopalan wrote: > > Is there a way to start a job in background in one > > terminal and bring it back to foreground in a different > > Terminal ? > > Use "dtach" or "detachtty". For more general use learn to use screen. > > By the way, normally backgrounded jobs are not expected to require > input/output to/from the terminal else they will stop. > Well.. I wanted to to this for a non-interactive program (transmissioncli). I am downloading a huge dvd ISO and it will take days on my 256k connection. Being sleepy I did not do a startx and just used the vt/1 In the morning, when I wanted to log into X and still have transmission reporting, I found I coudn't. Of course, there is transmissiond for this very reason. But this might not have been an isolated case. (Say mplayer is another app that might require attaching and detaching to different terminals). Screen is of course "The solution". But I want a lil' more X friendly way to do it. --- Ashok `ScriptDevil` Gautham _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
