Re: How to find out why some jobs wont stop?

[Francesco Potortì]

>While thats actually quite a possibility, I wonder whether there is
>another way more fitting my style of work. Normally I log in to that
>machine via SSH and start that jobs via some scripts, so in the end they
>are disowned from shell. Thus, I won't see the debug shell. I even tried
>that.
>
>I will now fall back to VNC and keep some terminals open. But is there a
>way to debug disowned Octave jobs?

You should use the 'screen' program, which is available on every Unix.

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