Stupid process control question

[Peter A. Castro]

On Wed, 29 May 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.

Why not use 'screen'?  When this "fool" starts his telnet session he
could then start screen and run his perl compile there.  He could also
disconnect the session and then reconnect it at home.  Pretty neat
program, really.  I've been using it for keeping live sessions at work
that I reconnect to at home.

> - Nathan McQuillen

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