[ale] Shell process control : Manipulating a process after having logged out and then logging in again

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Aditya Srinivasan wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>If I start a process in the background; log out; and then log in again ... 
>how can I have the process direct its stdout to my terminal session ?
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>For example ... I started a long running process .. halted it ... 
>restarted it in the background ... Then I logged out and have logged in 
>again. I'd like to be able to see what it is sending to stdout.
>
>Where does it send its output when I log out ?
>
>Thanks,
>sriad
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