Reconnecting background job and interactive shell

[DominikHoffmann]

If I run a program that generates a lot of output with the "&" suffix, it will continue operating in the background, only that the output is not directed to the shell anymore.

If I now logout of the shell that process will continue to run in the background, since it is no longer tied to the shell. Is there a way to reconnect its output to a new shell? If so, how would I do it?

[Pavao]

Use the "screen" command line utility. It doesn't come with MacOSX, but you can download it with fink.