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- From: hillig@U.Chem.LSA.UMich.EDU (Kurt Hillig)
- Subject: Re: Interactive vs Background users
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 13:35:05 EST
- Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- In article <_WC=5r=@engin.umich.edu> hillig@U.Chem.LSA.UMich.EDU (Kurt Hillig) writes:
- >In article <1dsh2fINNeok@manuel.anu.edu.au> aps583@huxley.anu.edu.au (Anthony P Scott) writes:
- >>
- >> [deleted]
- >> WE wish to
- >>What we would really like is something that detects an interactive user
- >>and places the background process in sleep, frees up memory and will
- >>then allow better interactive terminal response.
- >>
- >> [deleted]
- >>
- >>aps501@vp.anu.edu.au.oz
- >>aps583@huxley.anu.edu.au.oz
- >>
- >>Dr. Tony Scott.
- >>
- >
- >Sounds to me like you need babysit - developed by the College
- >of Engineering at the University of Michigan - which does just
- >what you want. You'll have to ask them about licensing, as it's
- >copyrighted. (I'm on campus, so they let me use it - I don't
- >know their policy for external users.)
- >
- >Contact disser@engin.umich.edu or licenses@caen.engin.umich.edu
- >for more information.
- >
-
- A followup to my followup: from the babysit docs:
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- Babysit is a wrapper for background jobs that suspends the specified job
- when a console user logs in, then restarts it after the user logs out.
- :
- :
- To run 'myprog' with redirected input and output, and command line argu-
- ments, use the following line:
-
- % babysit myprog arg1 arg2 < mydata > myoutput &
- :
- :
-
- So it's not quite what you're asking for, but it still can do the job.
-
- --
- Kurt Hillig
- Dept. of Chemistry I always tell the khillig@umich.edu
- University of Michigan absolute truth Telephone (313)747-2867
- Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055 as I see it. hillig@chem.lsa.umich.edu
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