process owner

[mrn]

Hi

We had a network problem earlier and all connection to the server were lost; one of our developers was editing a file using edt and hadn't saved for an hour. I can see the edt process still running is there anyway to associate this with his new connection and let him save the changes?

Mike

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[RodKnowlton]

If you're talking about /usr/bin/edit, which is a hard link to /usr/bin/vi (or vice-versa), then you should be able to kill the process, then use 'edit -r <filename>' to recover an edited version of the file. I say 'an' because the recovery file is only updated each time a number (which I don't recall) of changes has been made. It should recover some of the developer's work, though.

To be sure it will work, check for the existence of /var/tmp/ExPID, where PID is the process id of the unattached edit session. If it's there and non-zero in size, you should be able to recover.



Rod Knowlton
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