Does AIX allow you to place a process on HOLD?

[WiccaChic]

I am remembering being able to do this on an AS400 and it was very handy. Is there some analagous function in the AIX world?

 

[RodKnowlton]

Test this on an instance of the program that you don't mind aborting first, but you could try:

kill -17 <pid>

to stop it and

kill -19 <pid>

to restart.

If you're running the program from the KornShell command line, you can stop it with a Ctrl-Z (if it's not trapping it itself) and restart it with the "fg" command.

If you don't know what I meant by <pid>, don't try the first method.

Rod Knowlton
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert pSeries and AIX 5L

 

[uptodate]

Putting the job in a suspended state with control-z. By starting the job in the background, then bringing to the foreground and using ctrl-z is the only way I can think of unless you want to wrap it in a C program that handles signals.