[plug] Can I restart a suspended job on a remote machine from a different shell?

[rod]

Screen is the only way to achieve this afaik, because
an application will usually die when it loses its file descriptors,
and the moment the shell session which started the program stopped,
its file descriptors also went away.

screen creates a wrapped/fake set of files for the application, and
can then change/ignore/whatever the real file descriptors on the
application without it noticing... thusly the shell can go away, and
screen will just buffer

well thats my understanding of it anyway ... feel free to ignore.


On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 14:07 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote:
Can I restart a suspended job on a remote machine from a different
> shell?
> 
> I left a job stopped with ctrl-z on a remote machine before swsusp'ing
> it this morning.  The machine has been restarted so I may as well log
in
> again and restart the suspended job (long compile), but how.  If I had
> thought ahead I would have run it in screen ...