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

[mdhirsch at gmail.com (Michael Hirsch)]

On 4/25/05, Aditya Srinivasan <sriad at uab.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Benjamin Scherrey wrote:
> 
> > Check out 'screen'. Way cool tool.
> 
> I could not agree more ... easily the most prductivity enhancing tool that
> I've learnt to use yet.
> 
> However on this one occassion I did not use screen as it was not installed
> on that particular box ... and was curious about how I could "grab back"
> the output.

Are you sure it's still running?  I would expect it to die the first
time it actually tried to print anything out and found that stdout no
longer existed.  At the least, I'd expect it to hang forever trying to
find a terminal.  I don't know a way to give it one.

Michael