How can I detach process from a terminal I don't have access to?

I have a server process running in a gnome-terminal at home. I am at work, and I want to detach the process from that terminal and move it to screen without restarting it. Also, I can't use VNC.

Is there a way to do this?

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asked 18 Sep '10, 00:22

Joehillen
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About detaching part:

stop process (Ctrl+Z)

move it to the background (bg)

detach it from bash(disown)

Move it to screen? Hmm... interesting question :-). I am not aware of easy way to do it. There is an option of attaching to the running process with gdb -> redirecting stderr & stdout Maybe it can be accomplished with following steps:

1) open screen

2) find out what is screen output pseudo terminal

3) attach to your process with gdb

4) redirect your process standard output to screen pseudo terminal (using magic in link above, I mean dup2 system call and friends)

link

answered 18 Sep '10, 13:04

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