Stupid process control question

[Bill Fink]

On Wed May 29 2002, Nathan A. McQuillen wrote:

> OK, so here's the scenario: some fool has left a large compile (say, just
> for example, rebuilding perl) running, launched from a telnet session at
> work. He is now home, where the machine that the compile is running on is
> physically located. He would like to see what's going on in the process --
> ideally, to pause it and redirect its output to another (local) tty.
> 
> Is there any way (without ttysnoop, which I have installed but which won't
> grab sessions already initiated) to accomplish this feat?
> 
> Thanks for any assistance. I do, of course, have root on the concerned
> system.

I have sometimes used lsof in such cases to see what particular files
it's munching on at the moment.

						-Bill