Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!praxis!wgsiemel From: wgsiemel@praxis.cs.ruu.nl (Willem Siemelink) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: suspension of long process Message-ID: <3940@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> Date: 3 Oct 90 12:03:45 GMT Sender: news@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl Lines: 19 I have got a process that takes days to complete. However, the System Administration does not want me to run it in daytime. So now I am looking for a way to stop a process and later continue it. We have HP UX 7.0 running on the workstations here. I can do this by hand by typing ^Z on the running process followed by 'bg' and 'fg' but that is only when I'm on the keyboard at the very moment. Obviously that isn't good enough. I've had a suggestion using 'kill' but I couldn't figure it out. ('kill -3 gives a core-dump but I can't get it started again.) Any (clear) suggestion would be much appreciated. If responses are posted here or if you mail me at I'll be able to do something with them. (I mean to say that I am not going to track responses in different groups). If I happened to break some local curtesy I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. Have a day, Willem. -- The good thing about death is that it is preceded by life.