<div dir="ltr">But if the original process is not started in an existing screen session there is no way other that reptyr to move the pid into the screen pty.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Paul Cartwright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pbcartwright@gmail.com" target="_blank">pbcartwright@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 12/17/2013 10:21 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> Sometimes I start a process that is going to take far longer than I'm<br>
> willing to wait on and I forgot to load up a screen session to run in<br>
> so if my VPN connection dies my process dies with it. Such is the life<br>
> of an admin.<br>
</div>what about & ?? can't you run it in the background ?? I do that with<br>
processes that I don't want hogging my terminal session ( like hodoku.py<br>
) and I close the screen session and the process is still running..<br>
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Paul Cartwright<br>
Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587<br>
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