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    From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to All on Mon Jul 8 10:05:29 2024
    -bash: fg: no job control

    This morning, when I SSHed into another one of my systems, this message popped up right under the "Last login" line. Does anyone know what it means?

    I am used to "job control" referring to JCL on a mainframe, so this one is new to me. ;)

    Thanks!

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  • From nelgin@VERT/EOTLBBS to Dumas Walker on Mon Jul 8 12:06:43 2024
    On Mon, 8 Jul 2024 10:05:29 -0500
    "Dumas Walker" (VERT/CAPCITY2)
    <VERT/CAPCITY2!Dumas.Walker@endofthelinebbs.com> wrote:
    -bash: fg: no job control

    This morning, when I SSHed into another one of my systems, this
    message popped up right under the "Last login" line. Does anyone
    know what it means?

    I am used to "job control" referring to JCL on a mainframe, so this
    one is new to me. ;)

    Thanks!

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    Looks like something requiring job control was started in a
    non-interactive shell.
    Job control is usually when you use & at the end of a command to put it
    in background or use ^Z to suspend the process then bg to put it in the background. The fg command will attempt to bring it to the foreground
    again.
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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to NELGIN on Tue Jul 9 08:29:00 2024
    Looks like something requiring job control was started in a
    non-interactive shell.
    Job control is usually when you use & at the end of a command to put it
    in background or use ^Z to suspend the process then bg to put it in the background. The fg command will attempt to bring it to the foreground
    again.

    Thanks. I didn't think it was a big deal. I don't know what process it'd
    be, though, as I have not used & for a while.


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