On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 06:29 -0700, Craig White wrote:
Hi, is there a way to "reconnect" to a ssh session that was disconnected and left running processes in the linux server?
You can't reconnect to a broken ssh connection, and in fact it should have killed all the processes you were running.
Unfortunately, I have seen many instances where ssh sessions do like this; if one happens to be running a yum update in one, and yum is downloading packages (putting yum into its unkillable mode, which, in my opinion is such an annoying thing; there have been a number of times I'd start up an update, have it run for a while, then need to leave (taking my laptop with me, and thus disconnecting the session, which can cause its own problems) where I'd like to just simply CTRL-C yum and have it do the Right Thing; yum just cycles to the next mirror (at least the last time a couple of weeks ago it did this) when you hit CTRL-C OR when you send yum a SIGTERM)), then you can get some really wierd artifacts with unkillable but not running yum processes; I have seen a few where SIGKILL didn't do anything, and all because of a network glitch.
man screen
screen creates a detachable session
Or, depending on your bandwidth and how you feel about GUI's, look at VNC (using the module to export your console screen or vncserver for separate long-running sessions).