[sniffer]

I took a sudo ping -f for testing purposes on my home network. Anyway to quit the process I accidentally pushed ctrl+z (i think) instead of ctrl+c, so the process suspended instead of quitting. Can any one please tell me how I can continue the process? I tried to kill it, but it didn't respond to sudo kill <process>. I am on OS X 10.2.6.
Thanks.

[iNeusch]

have you tried "sudo kill -9 <process id>" ?

[bracken]

fg

[sniffer]

Hey, that worked nicely. Thanks.
I got the process killed finally.

But BTW how do you make use the suspend (ctrl+z) function and make the processes continue afterworths? Thanks.

[sniffer]

Originally posted by bracken:
fg

Thanks, thought it wasn't easy figure out what you meant.
From man fg:

Code:
 run-fg-editor (M-^Z)
               Saves  the  current  input  line  and  looks for a
               stopped job with a name equal to the  last  compo-
               nent of the file name part of the EDITOR or VISUAL
               environment variables, or, if neither is set, `ed'
               or  `vi'.  If such a job is found, it is restarted
               as if `fg %job' had been typed.  This is  used  to
               toggle  back  and  forth between an editor and the
               shell easily.  Some people bind  this  command  to
               `^Z' so they can do this even more easily.

But I think I got a picture.

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by sniffer:
Thanks, thought it wasn't easy figure out what you meant.

I just type "jobs" and then type % and the number of the suspended/backgrounded job I want to bring to the foreground.

Code:
[Alan-Orths-Computer:~] aorth% jobs
[1]    Suspended                     top
[2]  - Suspended                     top
[3]  + Suspended                     top -u
[Alan-Orths-Computer:~] aorth% %1

Then you can quit them normally.

[sniffer]

Originally posted by [APi]TheMan:
I just type "jobs" and then type % and the number of the suspended/backgrounded job I want to bring to the foreground.

Code:
[Alan-Orths-Computer:~] aorth% jobs
[1]    Suspended                     top
[2]  - Suspended                     top
[3]  + Suspended                     top -u
[Alan-Orths-Computer:~] aorth% %1

Then you can quit them normally.

Great tip! Big thanks! And easier to use than fg too if you have more than one application on suspend IMO.

[utidjian]

Originally posted by sniffer:
Great tip! Big thanks! And easier to use than fg too if you have more than one application on suspend IMO.

You can also do things like... if you suspended a process with Ctrl-Z but want it to continue in the background and not have to restart it with fg or kill %1 (or whatever)... just type

bg %1

and the job you suspended will be backgrounded. This is also handy if you started a process and it takes longer than you expected to complete, or if you just forgot to do:

somecommand &

You can suspend it (Ctrl-Z) then backgound it (bg %1).