Re: [Sheflug] Dumbass question of the week

[Andy Smith <nospam [at] strugglers.net>]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 10:09:05AM +0100, Steve Tickle wrote:
> occasionally, when I've su'd as root, done some work and then typed 'exit' 
> to exit back to my own account, I get the message 'There are stopped jobs'
> 
> a) What significance does this have?

You have processes running attached to your terminal which will die
when your terminal goes away.  If you are trying to run something
which continues after you log out then look at "nohup", or
preferably write it to do what nohup does for itself. :)

> b) How can I find which jobs are stopped

Depends on your shell's job control features, see the shell
documentation.  For bash

jobs    # list jobs
fg %1   # bring job number 1 to foreground

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