[plug] Re-Attaching a TTY

Brad Campbell brad at seme.com.au
Wed Jul 26 15:26:20 WST 2000


Matt Kemner wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Brad Campbell wrote:
> 
> > I have done the usual silly thing and killed X by mistake while
> > I had some processes running in an Xterm.
> > The processes are still running, but now with no tty attached.
> > is there anyway to attach a tty to the running processes again?
> 
> Not unless you were running screen(1) at the time
> 
>  - Matt

Ok, well, as one of the processes was/is wget..
as soon as the tty is dis-connected, it appears to create a 
wget-log file in the dir it was downloading in, so a simple
tail -f wget-log solves that one at least.
I'll have to kill and restart the others.. Oh well.
Cheers..

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