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

[W.Kenworthy]

That was it.  Had some 20+ processes stopped so gave them all to kill at
the same time and from ps and top, looks like its back at work.  The
compile is xorg which spins off numerous threads as well as the gentoo
emerge system controlling it which accounts for the number of processes.

Thanks, this is one for the cheat sheet,
BillK

On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 15:46 +0800, Russell Steicke wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 03:16:07PM +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote:
> > I should have made it clearer - the job is suspended in a running
> > terminal on the remote machine itself so the file descriptors etc are
> > still there.  I am hoping that the shell can be sent a signal by another
> > process to restart this job.  Otherwise when I get home I'll just "fg"
> > it and it will start running again.  
> 
> You could try sending the job a SIGCONT.  You will probably have to
> work out exactly which processes are stopped (the T status in ps).
> "kill -CONT pid", anyway.  Job control can suspend more than one
> process in the job, I think.
> 
> I just tried exactly that here, by sending a SIGCONT to a suspended
> "ls -al" from a different xterm, and it worked.
> 
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