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Quote:>I want to stop a process (kill - STOP) and continue it
>(kill - CONT) when the load of the host drops.
>But, if the shell from which the process was started was *not*
>terminated during the process is sleeping, the process is really
>killed by "kill - CONT". To solve the problem I must get rid of
>the controlling TTY after starting the process. But how?

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Wolfgang Denk

In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own  incom-
petency                                         - The Peter Principle

The background:
I want to stop a process (kill - STOP) and continue it
(kill - CONT) when the load of the host drops.
But, if the shell from which the process was started was *not*
terminated during the process is sleeping, the process is really
killed by "kill - CONT". To solve the problem I must get rid of
the controlling TTY after starting the process. But how?
--
Helmut Hayd

Quote:> How can I start a process without a controlling terminal
> ("ps -l" shows only a "?" in the "TTY" column) ?

> The background:
> I want to stop a process (kill - STOP) and continue it
> (kill - CONT) when the load of the host drops.
> But, if the shell from which the process was started was *not*
> terminated during the process is sleeping, the process is really
> killed by "kill - CONT". To solve the problem I must get rid of
> the controlling TTY after starting the process. But how?
> --
> Helmut Hayd

    Try setpgrp().  It disassociates the terminal from the process
    on most UNIX's.

    Good luck.

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:>How can I start a process without a controlling terminal
:>("ps -l" shows only a "?" in the "TTY" column) ?

:Look in W. R. Stevens "Advanced programming in the UNIX  Environment"
:in the chapter about daemon processes.

or, for a * solution:

echo ./the_command | at now

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tim butler