[clug] Command of the Hour

[Ian]

Awesome, that is something I have wanted to know how to do for *years* =D

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Hal Ashburner <hal.ashburner at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you're running some very long running command and realise that you are
> likely to log out before it finishes for whatever reason (you're going home,
> the network connection is flaky etc) and you have that "screen moment" where
> you say to yourself "I wish I started this from inside a screen session"
> One solution is cryopid:
> http://cryopid.berlios.de/
> Which allows you to freeze the process using cryopid then thaw it again from
> inside screen.
>
> Another slightly simpler, quick & dirty fix might be to use shell job
> control:
> Ctrl+z
> bg %1
> disown %1
> Which then allows you to close the controlling terminal without killing the
> process. With the caveat that if you needed the output from the controlling
> terminal it's gone.
>
> Cryopid can also be extremely useful to assist in tracking down a bug that
> requires a very long setup to trigger. Eg you can run the process, maybe on
> a simulator. Do the very long setup and then freeze the process. Then you
> can thaw the process many times with that setup already done as you prod and
> poke to find the bug.
>
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