[ale] How to move a running process to screen session

[Bruno Bronosky]

Do you really need reptyer? I would have tried to do this with fg <pid>

Not sure if it works as I'm pretty consistent at running tmux (what the
cool kids use in place of screen these days)
On Dec 17, 2013 10:29 PM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> I hit  the send button a tad too soon.
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sometimes I start a process that is going to take far longer than I'm
>> willing to wait on and I forgot to load up a screen session to run in so if
>> my VPN connection dies my process dies with it. Such is the life of an
>> admin.
>>
>> Here's a way to keep sanity a bit higher; transfer the pid to new screen
>> session.
>>
>> How?
>>
>> Easy!
>>
>> You need to have screen (you _do_ have screen, right?
>> http://jimkinney.us/9.%2Bscreen.html), reptyr (pronounced re-p-t-y-er)
>> and be running in bash on the remote system.
>>
>> In the shell where the long process is running, hit ctrl-z to pause the
>> process and then run bg to background it.
>>
>
> Now run the bash shell command 'disown <pid of log process>' to fully
> detach the process from the parent.
>
>
>> Now in another shell on the same system, start a screen session with
>> 'screen'.
>> In the screen session, run 'reptyr <pid of long process>'
>> Now you can ctrl-a d and get off the system entirely and the process will
>> run in the new screen session.
>>
>> Note: retty (old school version of reptyr) is replaced by reptyr as retty
>> is not happy at all with x86_64.
>>
>
> Note2: The disown command usage will not appear in your history after it's
> run so it's not possible to grep history for "how did I do that?" later.
>
>>
>> --
>> --
>> James P. Kinney III
>>
>> Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
>> gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own
>> tail. It won't fatten the dog.
>> - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
>>
>>
>> *http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
>> <http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/>*
>>
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>
>
> --
> --
> James P. Kinney III
>
> Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain
> at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail.
> It won't fatten the dog.
> - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
>
>
> *http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
> <http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/>*
>
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