[gentoo-user] accessing a bash

[gentoo-user] accessing a bash

[Jon Hardcastle]

Hey guys.. random Linux question.

If i have a bash process running on my machine that i am not 'attatched' to is there anyway to access it and see what it is doing short of just killing it?

Thanks.

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N: Jon Hardcastle
E: Jon@eHardcastle.com
'..Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.'
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Re: [gentoo-user] accessing a bash

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Jon Hardcastle wrote:
> Hey guys.. random Linux question.
>
> If i have a bash process running on my machine that i am not 'attatched' to
> is there anyway to access it and see what it is doing short of just killing
> it?
>

open files: lsof
everything else: strace

Re: [gentoo-user] accessing a bash

[Andrey Falko]

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On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Jon Hardcastle <jd_hardcastle@yahoo.com>wrote:

> Hey guys.. random Linux question.
>
> If i have a bash process running on my machine that i am not 'attatched' to
> is there anyway to access it and see what it is doing short of just killing
> it?
>

Thanks.


See if it has a parent process by running pstree. It could be that you ran
something in console or that you su-ed at some other instance.

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[gentoo-user] Re: accessing a bash

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Jon Hardcastle wrote:
> Hey guys.. random Linux question.
> 
> If i have a bash process running on my machine that i am not 'attatched' to is there anyway to access it and see what it is doing short of just killing it?
> 
> Thanks.

Give us the output of "ps aux | grep bash" and we might be able to tell 
what it does.

Re: [gentoo-user] accessing a bash

[Dan Wallis]

On 05/02/2009, Jon Hardcastle <jd_hardcastle@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hey guys.. random Linux question.
>
> If i have a bash process running on my machine that i am not 'attatched' to
> is there anyway to access it and see what it is doing short of just killing
> it?

Take a look at app-misc/screen. Although you do need to remember to
start things inside a screen to begin with.