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Old 10-12-2005
Question Checking background jobs from another session

Ok, so I'm comfortable backgrounding jobs in the shell, starting and stopping them, and bringing them to the fg and bg. What I can't figure out is how to monitor those background jobs from another shell (remote, or local).

Example:
- On a local console for MYHOST, I su to root
- I then update my /src via cvs and background the job with a '&'
- I connect via ssh to MYHOST from a different machine and su to root
- I type 'jobs', but no bg jobs show up

My original impression was that since 'root' backgrounded the jobs, I could just log in as root again, and check the job status. This doesn't work. I'm guessing that since I am connected under a 2nd session, the background jobs only apply to the session that started them, not the user who started them. How can I remotely check on these jobs?

Additionally, and sort of off topic, why if I su to root, then type 'who' does root not show up? The user I logged in as shows up, but not root. When I su to root, is that not running a login shell? Is that why?

Thanks for any feedback!
 

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NAME
faxrm - remove fax jobs queued by faxspool(1) SYNOPSIS
faxrm [-i] [job-ids...] DESCRIPTION
Remove job(s) from the fax queue set up by faxspool(1). faxrm removes queued fax jobs. Call with a list of job-IDs to remove specific jobs. Call with no job IDs to be asked interactively about all jobs you own (if run by root, all jobs). For job-id, use the strings returned by faxq(1) (e.g. F000015), without the ``/JOB'' exten- tion. If you are not the owner of the fax job (as per the 'user xyz' statement inside the JOB file), you are not allowed to remove the fax job. Only root is permitted to remove another user's faxes. If the job is locked (most likely because sendfax(8) is active sending it), faxrm doesn't attempt to remove it. Instead, it prints a warn- ing message on stderr and goes on to the next job. EXAMPLES
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