backgrounding a running wget job

[Tyler Littlefield]

this could be coded, though I don't know if I would be the one to do it. My
workload is sorta heavy, but I might be willing to give it a shot if someone
would explain it.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ari Moisio" <arimo at netsonic.fi>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 3:19 AM
Subject: Re: backgrounding a running wget job


> Hi!
>
>   In theory this could be possible: you have to change wget's process
group
> id to same as one of your screened shells. Unfortunately i do not know any
> tool to do this.
>
>   If you use bash you can put wget background witht
>   ^Z, bg  wget
> and  detach it from current shell with
> disown wget
>
>   but if the wget is outputting continuously this may now work. There is
> afaik no way to get process bakc to foreground.
>
>
> -- 
> arimo
>
> On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> > Thanks for the responses. Let me clarify my question though. From the
> > replies I'm reading, it seems the impression I've given people is that
> > I don't know how to use screen, and this I do know, at least well enough
> > to do what I've needed it for so far. My question concerning screen
> > was can I take a wget process already running in another standard
> > console, (I.E., no screen involved, just bash), and attach screen to
> > it without stopping it, or effecting its operation in anyway. As far
> > as I know, the answer to that question is no.
> >
> > Anyway, I solved the problem by biting the bullet, hitting ctrl+c on
> > the wget job, launching screen, and starting the wget job over again
> > under screen this time, passing the -c flag to wget to continue a
> > partial download, and all seems to be working fine now. Then, I of
> > course detached from the screen session, and logged off.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 11:41:37PM -0500, Farhan wrote:
> >> Hi.
> >> If you want to do this process, type screen. start your wget job, hit
control a then d log out, and when you want to bring your wget job up again,
in the console type screen -x or -r respectivly.
> >> personally, I use screen -x to bring my screen up, just because.
> >> On 7/3/2006 at 23:40 Gregory Nowak said
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