Newsgroups:  comp.os.linux.misc
Date:        Mon, 15 Mar 2004 23:08:59 -0500

> Is there a way to stop/suspend an application temporarily, then
> resume its execution later on?
>
> What I want is to suspend wget process while I am temporarily
> off-line. I looked up man pages, and thought the following should
> work:
>
> killall SIGSTOP wget
> killall SIGCONT wget
>
> But actually it won't:
>
> 'killall SIGSTOP wget' told me:
> SIGSTOP: no process killed

The error message tells you that killall interpreted SIGSTOP as a process name, not a signal; the wget processes were killed with the default SIGTERM.

killall -SIGSTOP wget
killall -STOP wget

Bill Marcum