[plug] Stopped Jobs

[Peter Wilsmore]

On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 04:21:07PM +0800, Earnshaw, Mike wrote:
> List,
> 
> Recently received a message about "stopped jobs" when I dropped back to
> user "mode" from su root. I searched using apropos for jobs and it gave
> commands like at, atq, batch etc. I ran each as root but did not get any

Stopped jobs are jobs that have been suspended ( ussually with CTRL-Z )
and not continued or killed. Alot of users do this by accident. You
can continue a stopped job with either fg ( continue running in the 
forground ) or bg ( continue running in the background ) you can refer
to a stopped or backgrounded job with %n where n is the job number so
kill -9 %1 will kill the first stopped or backgrounded job with extreme
prejudice.


> "list" of jobs. What puzzled me was when I ran at, I got "garbled time".
> I could make guess as to its meaning, but what's the offical prognosis?

at requires a time. An example at command would be
[morwong:~] at now + 5 minutes                                         [4:32PM]
echo ^G
job djinn.967711033.a at Thu Aug 31 16:37:13 2000
^D
[morwong:~]                                                            [4:32PM]


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