On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 09:19 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Wednesday 20 September 2006 11:12, Les Mikesell wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 09:41 -0500, Erick Perez 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 Craig