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  From: Alex Garner <alex@netcraft.com.au>
  To  : Schenk, Jarrad <Jarrad.Schenk@dsto.defence.gov.au>
  Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 15:23:15 +0930

Re: Grabbing background processes

> Just a general Unix enquiry. Is it possible to grab a process that
> is running on another console so that it can be controlled from a
> remote login.

'screen' is your friend.

> eg. I login to machine a from the console and start a process, a
> backup process using tar maybe.  can I then go to machine B,
> ssh/telnet/rlogin to machine A and take control of the tar process
> so that I can watch any output to stdout and stdin will now come
> from machine b. if this is possible, can it also be done for X apps.

Yep, screen. Look at the manual page. I seem to remember there is a
quick and dirty "I don't want to read a man page - show me the money"
kind of section for the impatient. Do what it says.

Cheers

Alex!

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