Thanks Scott.
That pretty well shows that my tar is, somehow, running in background.
root 30702 2.1 1.6 2920 1156 ?R11:57 0:01 tar -b 64 -vv -
The 'jobs' command doesn't show anything as I didn't start the 'tar' within my
session.
Although both my telnet session and the
Tom Duerbusch writes:
> I have a process that may or may not be running in background.
>
> When I use any of the forms of "ps", it shows the process running, but, I
> don't understand if any of the fields being displayed, indicate that this is
> a BG process. It all looks the same to me .
>
> If
On Monday, August 01, 2011 11:32:00 am you wrote:
> I have a process that may or may not be running in background.
>
> When I use any of the forms of "ps", it shows the process running, but, I
> don't understand if any of the fields being displayed, indicate that this
> is a BG process. It all loo
The 'jobs' command lists all active or stopped jobs (in the current shell)..
also - ps -aux shows a '+' under the Status field if it's running in the
foreground. With ps -ef the PID and PPID fields may help in determining
who called what. Hope this helps.
Scott Rohling
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 a
I have a process that may or may not be running in background.
When I use any of the forms of "ps", it shows the process running, but, I don't
understand if any of the fields being displayed, indicate that this is a BG
process. It all looks the same to me .
If the process is running in the bac
