On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 10:44:11AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, 31 May 2002, netbsd wrote:
> 
> > u can use 'screen' located in /usr/pkgsrc/misc/screen
> > its kinda useful for me
> 
> A bugtraq posting just mentioned how a system was broken into and
> then a regular user attached to an already running screen session that had
> a root login.
> 
> Anyways, I use nohup(1). (But you can't "regain control of the program
> later".)

'fg %<job_number>' can regain control of most (assuming ksh or csh.)

-- jay