I don't think that you can regain control of the process. When you logged out and your shell terminated, your background job was inherited by process 1 (init). Although it continued to run under your user ID, it was no longer your property.
On 22-Nov-01 Peter Bassill wrote:
Hi all
Hoping some-one can help me. I have run a process and put it into the background. I have then logged off and then logged back on later but i can not get the process to come back to the foreground. Does anyone know how to do it? Any help would be extremely gratefully received.
Pete Bassill