Transferring a process to another shell

[zennehoy]

Say I'm running a process happily in a shell, when all of a sudden, the shell stops responding - even though the process is till running happily in the background.
Is there some way I can start a new shell and "take over" the process from the crashed one? Basically I ssh'ed into a remote computer and the local shell crashed, while the process is still running happily on the remote computer.
Thanks for the help, as always!
Zen

[k9]

I think your best bet on doing something like this would be to use a little program called "screen". Search about it on this forum or on google to learn more about how it works. screen lets you disconnect from a shell and then reconnect up to it later (ie you can ssh into a machine and use screen. Then you can disconnect from the machine, open up a console locally on the machine you ssh'd into, and connect up to the shell that you were running remotely).

[alinv]

I'd go for screen, too.
Also, have a look at nohup which can run a process detached from the console and tty independent

Alin
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