[CentOS] background process

[Les Mikesell]

Johnny Hughes wrote:
> 
>>> Sorry for such lame question but ..
>>>
>>> When i am connected to server using SSH . How can i fetch process to
>>> background and close ssh session and not kill that process? And how 
>>> can i
>>> later connect to server and fetch process from background to console?
>>>
>>> All years i have been using "screen" for this.
>>
>> Why not continue with screen on CentOS?
>>
>> yum install screen
> 
> Screen is certainly the best method to do this that I have found ... is 
> there a reason why you DON'T want to use screen.
> 
> you can use the '&' to put things in the background and use the command 
> 'fg' to bring it to the foreground ... but screen also redirects stdout 
> and stderr for you, so I would still use it unless there is a specific 
> problem you are trying to address.

Or if you want a more modern approach - use freenx on the server and the 
NX client from www.nomachine.com.  This will give you a complete GUI 
desktop that you can suspend when you disconnect and you can simply 
leave each process running it its own window so it is easy to find.

And - you can run the whole session over an ssh connection mananged by 
the client and it is very efficient even when run remotely.

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   Les Mikesell
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