On 02/26/17 08:44, Rich Shepard wrote: > For my immediate need I chose to use nohup rather than alternatives. > There's a paucity of information on the web, even less in the man page. > That's OK as it's a simple tool with no options. > > I invoked the command in a virtual terminal in one Xfce4 workspace. When I > run the command, jobs -l, I see the process number of background running job > #1. But, when I try the same command from another v.t. I see nothing. So, if > I log out of the GUI will I be able to check from the console that the job > has finished or is still running? I have not found an answer on the web; > perhaps I've not correctly asked the question there. As this long-running > model is on a laptop I can remained logged in if I need to check job status > from that one v.t.
ps auxw | grep 'my_program' or, assuming nohup shows up the ps output ps auxw | grep 'nohup' or you could note the process ID when you invoke nohup and look for it in the ps output. ps auxw | grep 'my_pid' galen -- Galen Seitz gal...@seitzassoc.com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug