On 06 December 2006 12:05, Alan McKinnon wrote: > But nohup doesn't give you a way to reconnect the backgrounded process > or even to see it's output. You kinda just leave it to run till it > doesn't show up in ps anymore
Not exactly. For seeing its output, there always is "tail -f nohup.out". You can get it into the foreground again by "fg job-number" (job-number != PID), but its output still goes to nohup.out. Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
