[SOLVED] How to get a list of programs running with nohup

How to get a list of programs running with nohup

I am accessing a server running CentOS (linux distribution) with an SSH connection. Since I can't always stay logged in, I use "nohup [command] &" to run my programs.

I couldn't find how to get a list of all the programs I started using nohup. "jobs" only works out before I log out. After that, if I log back again, the jobs command shows me nothing, but I can see in my log files that my programs are still running.

Is there a way to get a list of all the programs that I started using "nohup" ?

Solution

When I started with $ nohup storm dev-zookeper ,

METHOD1 : using jobs,

prayagupd@prayagupd:/home/vmfest# jobs -l
[1]+ 11129 Running                 nohup ~/bin/storm/bin/storm dev-zookeeper &

NOTE: jobs shows nohup processes only on the same terminal session where nohup was started. If you close the terminal session or try on new session it won't show the nohup processes. Prefer METHOD2

METHOD2 : using ps command.

$ ps xw
PID  TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
1031 tty1     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty1
10582 ?        S      0:01 [kworker/0:0]
10826 ?        Sl     0:18 java -server -Dstorm.options= -Dstorm.home=/root/bin/storm -Djava.library.path=/usr/local/lib:/opt/local/lib:/usr/lib -Dsto
10853 ?        Ss     0:00 sshd: vmfest [priv]

TTY column with ? => nohup running programs.

Description

TTY column = the terminal associated with the process
STAT column = state of a process
- S = interruptible sleep (waiting for an event to complete)
- l = is multi-threaded (using CLONE_THREAD, like NPTL pthreads do)

Reference

$ man ps # then search /PROCESS STATE CODES