[clug] reconnect to terminal

[Brett Worth]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, James McNeill wrote:

> I was in a remote session when my computer crashed. After rebooting I 
> could log back in, and see that I was still logged in from my last 
> session on another terminal.
> 
> Is it possible to reconnect to the terminal session that has been left 
> running on the server?

I doubt it.  Even if you could reattach to the tty the process, which
is currently sleeping in the kernel waiting for tty output to complete,
would wake up and die because of a pending hangup signal.

If you want to do this sometime on purpose you could use "screen".

-- 
Brett