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Re: bg on one xterm, fg on another



On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Erez Doron wrote:

> hi
> 
> is there a way to cause a program which is running at background ( i.e.
> with the '&' character)
> to become forground on another console ?
> 
> I found an 'ncftp' session running on the background of my machine,
> I wanted to see what i'm downloading and on what state it is, but the
> console which invoked the program was already exited from
> 
> is there a way to forground it on another console, or the only options
> is either let it finish ( don't know what it does ) or kill it ?

possible hints I can think of:
1. netstat |grep ftp
2. use screen next time
3. connect to the process with gdb

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