Use case:

• You just started a process (i.e. compile, copy, etc).
• You noticed it will take much longer than expected to finish.
• You cannot abort or risk the process to get aborted due to the current shell session finishing.
• It would be ideal to have this process on ‘screen’ to have it running on backgroud.

We can move it to a screen session with the following steps:

1. Suspend the process

   1. press Ctrl+Z

2. Resume the process in the background

   1. bg

3. Disown the process

   1. disown %1

4. Launch a screen session

   1. screen

5. Find the PID of the process

   1. pgrep myappname

6. Use reptyr to take over the process

   1. reptyr 1234

Note: at the moment of writing this, reptyr is not available on any Fedore/Redhat repo. We’ll need to compile:

$ git clone https://github.com/nelhage/reptyr.git

$ cd reptyr/

$ make

$ sudo make install