POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Pause : Re: Pause Server Time
28 Jul 2024 10:27:56 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Pause  
From: Orchid XP v2
Date: 29 Apr 2006 12:10:31
Message: <44538ff7$1@news.povray.org>
>>Is there a way to "pause" POV-Ray under UNIX?
> 
> 
>   Not in POV-Ray itself, but you can suspend (almost) any program in unix
> by pressing ctrl-z on the console where you started it (this actually sends
> SIGHUP to the process, which can also be sent to it by other means, eg.
> using the kill command). You can then continue it by writing 'fg' in the
> same console.

Right, cool.

I'm running it remotely using SSH. I start POV-Ray, then log out of SSH. 
I don't know of a way of reconnecting to the original console. So I can 
use the kill command to pause it, but how can I unpause it? Is there 
some signal for that, or...?


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