Nohup

gtvlusso

Forgot to Nohup a massive dump out of a DB - now have to sit here all night with my laptop online waiting for the fecking thing to finish......gonna take at least 3 hours, no sleep for me tonight.

su - Luser....

More online shopping then....

itboffin

Tee hee we've all done it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bg_(Unix)

Personally I use screen that way I can suspend or disconnect my terminal sessions and reconnect from anywhere anytime, very powerful util esp over remote ssh connections.

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/comp/unix/ ... een.1.html

prawny

itboffin wrote:

Tee hee we've all done it

I can honestly say I never have :?

Because I have no idea what you're talking about

itboffin

prawny wrote:

itboffin wrote:

Tee hee we've all done it

I can honestly say I never have :?

Because I have no idea what you're talking about

wgwarburton

itboffin wrote:

Tee hee we've all done it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bg_(Unix)

Personally I use screen that way I can suspend or disconnect my terminal sessions and reconnect from anywhere anytime, very powerful util esp over remote ssh connections.

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/comp/unix/ ... een.1.html

Or VNC... run a desktop somewhere stable & connect from your desk, remote office, home, the train...

Cheers,
W.

itboffin

WGWarburton wrote:

itboffin wrote:

Tee hee we've all done it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bg_(Unix)

Personally I use screen that way I can suspend or disconnect my terminal sessions and reconnect from anywhere anytime, very powerful util esp over remote ssh connections.

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/comp/unix/ ... een.1.html

Or VNC... run a desktop somewhere stable & connect from your desk, remote office, home, the train...

Cheers,
W.

Over ssh or similar I should hope

Feltup

I love geek speak, no idea what is being said, might as well be in Welsh

prawny

Feltup wrote:

I love geek speak, no idea what is being said, might as well be in Welsh

Oh no welsh is far easier to understand, this is like thai, or ancient greek

gtvlusso

It took 5 and 1/4 hours in the end......That's ERDB for you...on a busy V480 cluster.

My linux workstation broke, otherwise I would have left it on there or left my laptop in the office - needed my laptop for Work from home today (so could not leave it) - hence why I was annoyed at myself for:

a, not calculating it out in terms of previous dumps, memory and so on.
b, not backgrounding the task "&"
c, not nohup'ing the process

killing the session (and shell) would kill my jobs and probably cock up the DB as it was extracting.......Mmmm ssh (or telnet!)

su - Luser

ps -ef| grep -i luser

nohup /usr/local/scripts/dmp_luser

Doh!

itboffin

I just spent 30 mins trying to fix a ubuntu gconf issue after a dead battery on the laptop, fools on the Internet just reinstalled the OS :shock:

What is wrong with people, the turn it off and on then reinstall generation.

Rich158

prawny wrote:

Feltup wrote:

I love geek speak, no idea what is being said, might as well be in Welsh

Oh no welsh is far easier to understand, this is like thai, or ancient greek

are you sure you don't mean ancient geek

prawny

Rich158 wrote:

prawny wrote:

Feltup wrote:

I love geek speak, no idea what is being said, might as well be in Welsh

Oh no welsh is far easier to understand, this is like thai, or ancient greek

are you sure you don't mean ancient geek

I did think that after I posted that

itboffin wrote:

dead battery on the laptop

Ooh I know what that is 8)

il_principe

itboffin wrote:

I just spent 30 mins trying to fix a ubuntu gconf issue after a dead battery on the laptop, fools on the Internet just reinstalled the OS :shock:

What is wrong with people, the turn it off and on then reinstall generation.

Yeah, exactly. Some people, sheesh. :roll:

I worry that as a non it geek I never get the most out of my computers.

Mr. Boffin, care to share some Mac know how?

itboffin

jashburnham wrote:

itboffin wrote:

I just spent 30 mins trying to fix a ubuntu gconf issue after a dead battery on the laptop, fools on the Internet just reinstalled the OS :shock:

What is wrong with people, the turn it off and on then reinstall generation.

Yeah, exactly. Some people, sheesh. :roll:

I worry that as a non it geek I never get the most out of my computers.

Mr. Boffin, care to share some Mac know how?

Best thing for your mac is keep the desktop clear of docs apps etc. less is def more, turn off everything your not using all the time widgets etc. startup login items and don't allow your hard disk to fill up more than 75%

Mac-tastic

gtvlusso

I don't have a PC at home - have 150 various flavour unix and FTX clusters to look after for work.......Mmmm FTX (Fault Tolerant Unix!)

Thats enough to last me a lifetime......I was even reluctant to but a TV!

wgwarburton

jashburnham wrote:

I worry that as a non it geek I never get the most out of my computers.

No-one uses all of a computer's features. It's a general purpose device intended to be many things to many people and contains functionality that was built in to meet requirements you don't have.

Same applies to mobile 'phones and other sophisticated consumer-tech.

Learn what you need to to make life easier.. by all means look for more and better ways to use the technology available but don't worry about "wasting" capability, that's a design feature!

Cheers,
W.

il_principe

WGWarburton wrote:

jashburnham wrote:

I worry that as a non it geek I never get the most out of my computers.

No-one uses all of a computer's features. It's a general purpose device intended to be many things to many people and contains functionality that was built in to meet requirements you don't have.

Same applies to mobile 'phones and other sophisticated consumer-tech.

Learn what you need to to make life easier.. by all means look for more and better ways to use the technology available but don't worry about "wasting" capability, that's a design feature!

Cheers,
W.

That's kinda what I meant Buns, just worded it badly!

girv73

Too late now, but couldn't you have ctrl-z / bg'd it ?

itboffin

girv73 wrote:

Too late now, but couldn't you have ctrl-z / bg'd it ?

Beat you too it.

tomfoolery

gtvlusso wrote:

I don't have a PC at home - have 150 various flavour unix and FTX clusters to look after for work.......Mmmm FTX (Fault Tolerant Unix!)

Blimey! Who do you work for, and do they have black helicopters?

thrope

gtvlusso wrote:

It took 5 and 1/4 hours in the end......That's ERDB for you...on a busy V480 cluster.

My linux workstation broke, otherwise I would have left it on there or left my laptop in the office - needed my laptop for Work from home today (so could not leave it) - hence why I was annoyed at myself for:

a, not calculating it out in terms of previous dumps, memory and so on.
b, not backgrounding the task "&"
c, not nohup'ing the process

killing the session (and shell) would kill my jobs and probably fool up the DB as it was extracting.......Mmmm ssh (or telnet!)

su - Luser

ps -ef| grep -i luser

nohup /usr/local/scripts/dmp_luser

Doh!

Guess it's a bit late - but you could have background'd the running process by using ctrl-z, then do 'jobs' to check which number, then 'bg %1' - or even better 'disown -h %1' which nohups the running process as well...

gtvlusso

thrope wrote:

gtvlusso wrote:

It took 5 and 1/4 hours in the end......That's ERDB for you...on a busy V480 cluster.

My linux workstation broke, otherwise I would have left it on there or left my laptop in the office - needed my laptop for Work from home today (so could not leave it) - hence why I was annoyed at myself for:

a, not calculating it out in terms of previous dumps, memory and so on.
b, not backgrounding the task "&"
c, not nohup'ing the process

killing the session (and shell) would kill my jobs and probably fool up the DB as it was extracting.......Mmmm ssh (or telnet!)

su - Luser

ps -ef| grep -i luser

nohup /usr/local/scripts/dmp_luser

Doh!

Guess it's a bit late - but you could have background'd the running process by using ctrl-z, then do 'jobs' to check which number, then 'bg %1' - or even better 'disown -h %1' which nohups the running process as well...

Ah yes! Good ol process control......I was in remotely, sadly, and was not gonna mess about remapping my keyboard for the session....It was 3am! I am intrinsically lazy!

Throlkim

I'm supposed to be writing my dissertation right now, but seriously considering putting the 450mhz G4 PowerMac back together and chucking Ubuntu on there again.

I know that as soon as I stick a wireless card in there that it'll all go tits up though.

itboffin

Throlkim wrote:

I'm supposed to be writing my dissertation right now, but seriously considering putting the 450mhz G4 PowerMac back together and chucking Ubuntu on there again.

I know that as soon as I stick a wireless card in there that it'll all go tits up though.

Get back to work you slacker :P

Throlkim

My current work progress seems to be going a lot like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P785j15Tzk

I'm a web designer/developer, my patience is limited with writing about the media in vietnam

itboffin

Throlkim wrote:

My current work progress seems to be going a lot like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P785j15Tzk

I'm a web designer/developer, my patience is limited with writing about the media in vietnam

Nam! ...you weren't there man...!

Throlkim

Just received this as an email from my dissertation tutor:

Just assume that everyone knows about Nam and concentrate on the main topic

Did I tell you I served in Nam in 1965?

Tottenam that is

gtvlusso

Look out for Charley........

He owns the chip shop on the corner.....

thrope

gtvlusso wrote:

thrope wrote:

Guess it's a bit late - but you could have background'd the running process by using ctrl-z, then do 'jobs' to check which number, then 'bg %1' - or even better 'disown -h %1' which nohups the running process as well...

Ah yes! Good ol process control......I was in remotely, sadly, and was not gonna mess about remapping my keyboard for the session....It was 3am! I am intrinsically lazy!

Oh no - esoteric terminals! It's been a while since I had a session up where ctrl didn't work... but still, you could have opened another terminal and suspended the process with 'kill -STOP $PID' which gives the same effect as doing ctrl-z (so you could then bg and disown -h to nohup)

You shouldn't have given up! WIth *nix there is always a way...

il_principe

I appear to have lost the ability to understand written English.