suspend job of other terminal

[pankajpanjwani]

Hi experts,
Is it possible to suspend a job which was run in past through a terminal which do not exist now. The job may be running in background but the terminal was closed down for some reason.

I tried kill -STOP pid and kill -CONT pid. Did not work as expected.



Pankaj

 

[tikual]

You may try kill -9 PID

tikual

 

[PHV]

Before a kill -9 I would try a kill -15 to give a chance for gracefull termination of the job.

 

[pankajpanjwani]

just to calrify my point.
I donot want to KILL that job, I want to immitate Ctrl-Z and "fg"/"bg" behavior with "kill" command.

I hope this calrifies that it needs to be suspended (and not killed) so that i can again run it.

Pankaj

 

[art15t]

The only way that a process can continue to run after the shell has terminated is for the initial process to be started with a nohup (in which case the init process will take control), have it running on a pseudo terminal or via a scheduler such as cron. Otherwise the process itself will terminate along with it parent shell/process as and when that dies.

I would suggest you install a pseudo terminal package such as "screen". Once installed you can configure screen to leave your processes unaffected even if the parent shell dies. I personally use this option and have my profile check for screen shells during the login process, which then prompts me to re-attach or login as usual.

So if you had a suspended job, you could hook back into it precisely where it left off. Is that what you want?

ART