Re: list of all background jobs

[Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com>]

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Consider the following scenario. I am on machine A.
>
> user1@machineA $ ssh user2@machineB
> user2@machineB $ nohup command1 &
> user2@machineB $ nohup command2 &
>
> Now if I use the jobs command, I can display the background jobs on this
> shell.
>
> user2@machineB $ jobs
>
> [1] Running  nohup command1 &
> [2] Running  nohup command2 &
>
> Now if I exit the shell on machineB and come back to machineA.
>
> user2@machineB $ exit
> user1@machineA $
>
> After some time (say after a day or so) I log back in to machineB.
>
> user1@machineB $ ssh user2@machineB
> user2@machineB $ jobs
>
> then there is no output even though the jobs are being run in the
> background.

That is to be expected, since `jobs' is  a shell builtin and lists 
backgrounded jobs running in that shell alone.

> Is there any way to get information about all the jobs being
> run in the background that belong to a particular user? In other words is
> there any way to display information about [1],[2] jobs in the new shell?
>
> Currently I am using a round about way to achieve this
>
> user2@machineB $ ps aex | grep nohup | gvim -
>
> Is there any better, more elegant solution for this problem?

I use `pgrep nohup' to find processes containing 'nohup' in the command, 
or `ps x -u <username>' to find processes belonging to a certain user.

> thanks
> raju


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