Daemonizing Processes

Update: Commenters have pointed out a few things: This post is incomplete/incorrect. What I’m doing now is hav­ing the dae­mon func­tion call a script that looks like this: #!/bin/bash exec 1>&- exec 2>&- exec 3>&- nohup myPropApp & 2>&1 > thelog.txt That code was from another web­site who’s URL I lost, and I posted the solution …

Living with Telcos

Your net­work engi­neer orders four T1 lines from loca­tions in City A to a dat­a­cen­ter in City Z via a large telco. He leaves the week before these are to be dropped, and of course, does not doc­u­ment what he was doing or even keep copies of the con­tracts. Either way, the lines are in …

Pong

I notice I tend to start blog posts like an awk­ward attempt to jump-start a stalled con­ver­sa­tion: “So, I was look­ing at…” or “So, I was doing X…” It’s a lit­tle cow­ardly on my part, afraid to just jump into some­thing with­out some sort of warn­ing — in this case, the word “so”. Either that or I …

The Fool’s Only Teacher 3

Sometimes life works. Other times it doesn’t. Hopefully you get to the point where you can spot the “doesn’t” parts in advance… If you’re lucky enough to get a tech­ni­cal per­son call­ing you in for the inter­view, remem­ber to ask about a dress-code range. It’s uncom­fort­able to be pimp­ing a suit when the guy who …