Recalling jobs started using nohup and "&"

RAdams · 12-20-2006, 03:14 PM

If I:

Code:

nohup myjob &

Then of course "myjob" will be started and I can freely exit, perform other tasks, etc, with it still running. However, what happens when I want to bring it back to the foreground? Using "jobs" produces nothing on it, thanks to nohup, running myjobs with the intent to disown it only starts another instance of the program, no affecting the original, and fg doesn't help, because it can't recognize the process, apparently.

Code:

ps -A | grep myjob

That returns the PID of the job, but trying to bring that job to the foreground gives an error "no such job" I can kill the job using the output PID, but I want a way to bring the job back to the foreground.

How can I do this?

farslayer · 12-20-2006, 03:44 PM

Use screen instead of nohup

You can start a screen session launch your application, script, whatever, then disconnect from the screen. you can later re-attach to the screen easily. .

RAdams · 12-21-2006, 01:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by farslayer

Use screen instead of nohup

You can start a screen session launch your application, script, whatever, then disconnect from the screen. you can later re-attach to the screen easily. .

I can't sudo. Is there a way around this? (I used "screen -D -RR myjob")

farslayer · 12-21-2006, 07:15 AM

simply run the screen command alone..
once screen is running you should be able to sudo inside the screen session.. and do whatever you need..