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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.