How to attach to a nohup process?
If I start a process with nohup:
nohup WHATEVER &
then how can I see it again? I mean how to attach my terminal to it again under Linux, e.g.: Ubuntu 11.04 - just like with the screen
package.
What do you want to do with it?
As other poster has said, screen is better, you can attach/reattach.
nohup
does not disconnect from terminal, it makes your app ignore SIGHUP, and (usually) redirects stdout/stderr. Run jobs
in your terminal. It may just be a background job, and you can bring it back with fg
. I don't know how to get stderr/stdout once you redirect it.
You should have used screen in the first place as it is a lot more flexible than nohup.
But if you want to attach to the process in the same way as screen, this link provides more info : https://serverfault.com/questions/24425/can-i-nohup-screen-an-already-started-process
Basically you can either use reptyr
as described in the link, or you can use an old script called screenify
. I found the script here : http://isteve.bofh.cz/~isteve/knowledgebase/articles/screenify.html