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Re: ps, jobs, and bg jobs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Fri Oct 16 13:36:26 1998
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 17:34:44 +0000
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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ps ax | less or ps ax | grep ProgName
Rick Ingersoll wrote:
> This a pretty basic question that I hope someone can answer.
>
> I have several users who must run pretty big (CPU intensive, lengthy)
> Matlab jobs on a RH5.1 box. In order to eliminate the need to have open
> console or telnet sessions while one or more of these jobs is running,
> we've figured out (actually got the info off the Matlab site) how to run
> these jobs in the background so that the user can logout and then login
> later to examine the output.
>
> The problem is that we can't seem to get these background jobs to show up
> in any output from either the 'ps' or 'jobs' command. According to the man
> pages and other folks we've talked to, we should be able to do this. I'm
> not sure whether or not this is a case of the man pages not "keeping up"
> with the command (seems like a common complaint) or whether we've just
> overlooked something.
>
> Any enlightenment appreciated.
>
> Rick.
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