Comments on: Detaching a running process on *nix (or how to make a process continue to run after logging out)

By: Thomas Habets

Thomas Habets — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:57:33 +0000

Almir:

As I say in my blog post (http://blog.habets.pp.se/2009/03/Moving-a-process-to-another-terminal mentioned above):

“There is a program called retty that I found later on that sort of does this, but it only closes and re-opens stdin/out et al. It doesn’t seem to do full terminal handling. Nor does it seem to detach the original terminal. It only allows you to peek into the process, control it for a bit, and then hand it back. If you shut down the original terminal you’re still screwed.”

By: Almir Karic

Almir Karic — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:41:56 +0000

http://pasky.or.cz/~pasky/dev/retty/

this allows you to attach something already running in a screen session :)

By: Mads Sülau Jørgensen

Mads Sülau Jørgensen — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:22:10 +0000

That's both cool and very scary at the same time.

Thanks for the link though!

By: bsdpunk

bsdpunk — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:10:59 +0000

I did find this though: http://blog.habets.pp.se/2009/03/Moving-a-process-to-another-terminal

By: bsdpunk

bsdpunk — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:09:50 +0000

I’m sorry I thought you could ctrl-z the task then enter screen and bring it back with fg. I appear to be wrong.

By: Mads Sülau Jørgensen

Mads Sülau Jørgensen — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:00:51 +0000

I don’t really know any way to make a already started process go into a screen – if you know of such a function, I’d love to know of it :)

By: bsdpunk

bsdpunk — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:58:09 +0000

Why not just use, screen?