Re: re-attaching dropped process

From: Bradley C. Kuszmaul (bradley@ee.yale.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 15 1999 - 09:15:11 EDT


I recommend using "screen" to solve the problem of broken dialup
connections. It only works for a "dumb terminal" interface. I would
sure like a version of an X server that would do the same thing for X
connections...

-Bradley

   Newsgroups: yale.users.linux
   Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 23:29:30 -0400 (EDT)
   From: Shawn Bayern <shawn.bayern@yale.edu>
   References: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9910141852120.16118-100000@sdn6.med.yale.edu>

   On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Ron Nath wrote:

> Ive had some probs lately losing my telnet connection to my rh5.2 linux
> box using the yale ppp dialup server. I tried using the dislocate command
> (which I guess uses expect) to try to reattach my lost processes. When I
> did this all I got was a blinking cursor and no response to any
> keystrokes. Reading the man page on it was not particularly enlightening.

> It said if I simply type dislocate, it will list processes that I can
> reattach. I then proceed to accept the default [y] to reattach to the
> listed process and then nothing happens. Am I doing something wrong?

   I could be wrong since I haven't played with it much, but I was under the
   impression that the 'dislocate' script won't work with arbitrary
   processes; you need to actually set them up for re-attachment first
   (through a prior invokation of 'dislocate').

   The man page is *very* unclear on this point, but check the source (it's
   just an 'expect' script) for more info.

   Shawn



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