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Re: 4.0 and "suspend"

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Wed Oct 23 16:44:14 1996

Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 16:25:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, Jonathan Corbet wrote:

> However, here's a weird one.  I've long been accustomed to keeping a root
> shell around for when I need it.  I just "su", do my thing, then use
> "suspend" to stop the process until I need it again.  At that point, a
> simple "fg" gets it back.  It's worked great for years on a variety of
> systems.

You need to upgrade your sh-utils, as mentioned on the errata.

Erik

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