[SOLVED] Restart a stopped background job

ZAMO · 07-14-2013, 08:22 AM

A job was running in the background. I made to bring it foreground . Since I need to be back on prompt, i pressed ctrl+Z , which made the job to move to background , but STOPPED .

Is there a way to start it to "RUNNING" , from where it stopped? Or it can only be restarted?

[root@rhel6 ~]# jobs -l
[2]+ 6837 Running nohup ./testfore.sh &
[root@rhel6 ~]# fg 2
nohup ./testfore.sh
^Z
[2]+ Stopped nohup ./testfore.sh
[root@rhel6 ~]# jobs -l
[2]+ 6837 Stopped nohup ./testfore.sh

AlucardZero · 07-14-2013, 01:27 PM

Type "bg" to BackGround the job

ZAMO · 07-15-2013, 02:40 AM

Thanks .Yes , When "Ctrl+Z" is pressed , it will move to background . I need to know how to start the stopped Job which is Running(stopped) is background.

[root@rhel6 ~]# jobs -l
[2]+ 6837 Stopped nohup ./testfore.sh

Firerat · 07-15-2013, 05:32 AM

Ctrl+z suspends that last ( i.e. current ) job
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctrl-Z

so you should take AlucardZero's advice and type bg to resume it in the background

Pastychomper · 07-15-2013, 05:39 AM

I think you're looking for fg.

As you've mentioned, ctrl+Z stops the job, so it's still in memory but not running. bg will make it resume running in the background, or fg will bring it back to the foreground.

Firerat · 07-15-2013, 06:48 AM

Ahh, thanks Pastychomper, I think I just got confused and read *is* background, as *as* background assuming typo

ZAMO · 07-15-2013, 04:27 PM

Thanks for all . Here is my tries...

Code:

[root@rhel6 ~]# jobs
[1]+  Running                 nohup ./testfore.sh &
[root@rhel6 ~]# fg 1
nohup ./testfore.sh
^Z
[1]+  Stopped                 nohup ./testfore.sh
[root@rhel6 ~]# jobs -l
[1]+  1702 Stopped                 nohup ./testfore.sh
[root@rhel6 ~]# bg
[1]+ nohup ./testfore.sh &
[root@rhel6 ~]# jobs -l
[1]+  1702 Running                 nohup ./testfore.sh &
[root@rhel6 ~]# fg
nohup ./testfore.sh
^Z
[1]+  Stopped                 nohup ./testfore.sh
[root@rhel6 ~]# bg
[1]+ nohup ./testfore.sh &
[root@rhel6 ~]# jobs -l
[1]+  1702 Running                 nohup ./testfore.sh &
[root@rhel6 ~]#

Sorry AlucardZero for replying without trying the "bg" . I thought it will simply move a job to background, not make it run . But it does ...

Thanks again to all.