log off with process running

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 01:28:41PM +0800, rfa at msumain.edu.ph wrote:

> I was wondering if I did something like this using putty:
> 
> #nohup btlaunchmany.py . &
> 
> and then the session was terminated because of a power spike, how could I
> put the process back into the foreground after logging in again so I could
> see its statistics?  I wouldnt want to use redirection because it would
> probably use too much disk.

You can't, but that is what "screen" is for (and you don't need to use nohup).

Kris
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