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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers suspend a *background* running job Post 302483369 by Corona688 on Sunday 26th of December 2010 03:33:46 PM
Old 12-26-2010
I don't know of a shell builtin for that, but you can suspend it with kill -STOP pid and resume it with kill -CONT pid
 

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oarhold(1)							   OAR commands 							oarhold(1)

NAME
oarhold - hold a job in OAR batch scheduler. SYNOPSIS
oarhold [--array][job_ids][--sql "sql syntax"][-r][-h][-V] DESCRIPTION
Ask OAR to not schedule jobs until oarresume command will be executed. OPTIONS
-r, --running Manage not only Waiting jobs but also Running one (can suspend the job) --array Hold array job(s) passed as parameter (all the sub-jobs of the given array job(s)) --sql Hold jobs which repond to the SQL where clause on the table jobs (ex: "project = 'p1'") -V, --version Print OAR version number. -h, --help Print help command message. oarsub(1), oardel(1) oarstat(1), oarnodes(1), oarresume(1) COPYRIGHTS
Copyright 2008 Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (http://www.liglab.fr). This software is licensed under the GNU Library General Public License. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. oarhold 2012-05-23 oarhold(1)
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