Stopping or foregrounding a background job.

[Vick Khera]

In article <5542.25d6bcab at elroy.uh.edu> cosc6bp at elroy.uh.edu (A JETSON News User) writes:
>I have a C data gathering program running in the background. It is set up to 
>execute a final statistics gathering routine when I bring it into the 
>foreground and stop it via Ctrl-C.  It works really well except when I have
>to bring it back into the foreground after I have logged out.  How does
>one do this?  At that point you can't %number or fg number it into the 
>foreground.  All I can get on it is it's process id from ps aux. 
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>It's a system of Sun 3/50 -60's.  So finally:
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>Ignacio Valdes      

I assume you are trapping SIGINT to catch the CTRL-C.  All you need to do
is issue the correct signal to your process, which is easily done with the
kill command. "kill -INT <pid>" should do the trick.

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