Re: Job Control?

[bwarsing@intergate.bc.ca]

On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 04:38:08PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> There is a utility called 'screen' to handle this.  It's packaged for 
> Debian.  You'd run your program in a screen session in one window ('screen
> mutt' for example).  You could then detach the screen session from that
> window using CTRL-A CTRL-D.  The process is still running, but not in the
> original xterm or virtual console.  Then, from another tty, you could do a
> 'screen -r' to re-attache the screen session to the current tty.
> 
> I don't know of any other way to do something like this.
> 
> HTH,
> noah
> 
Then I think I am in trouble...
I chose to run dselect on an xterm as su root.
So, if I kill that window to install a new version of afterstep,
what i am currently running, am I up the creek?
Oh, boy.
Now I am worried.
Anybody got any ideas?

Bonus points to quickest replies.
BTW: don't have 'screen'. Oops.

Arghhhhh!

bw