We have a script which runs on our web servers, triggered by customer action, which initiates a unix process to generate some cache files. Because this process acts upon files supplied by our customer, it sometimes misbehaves, running so long that the PHP process which spawns it times out or using so much CPU time that a sysadmin will kill it.
This is a question that has been addressed several times, not only here, but also in other sites of the stack exchange network (e.g. How to make ssh to kill remote process when I interrupt ssh itself?
). However, I cannot make any of the solutions work for me.
I just switched from the standard Gnome window manager to Openbox (still running inside Gnome) and like it a lot. However, now I need a new run dialog, e.g. the thing popping up when hitting Alt+F2 in Gnome. I see in the Openbox wiki, I can use the one from gnome with gnome-panel-control --run-dialog but maybe some one can recommend a better program for this?
I remembered bash can do the following:
I want to find out what device my file is on so that I can use it in a script. I can get this far:
I want to change my Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon boot image manually.
Is there a command to output the current value of the clipboard?
I have the following directory listing on a Debian Linux system. However, one strange thing is that the file populate.sql does not seem to be sorted with the rest.
When writing content to removable devices on Linux (USB sticks/HDDs, SD cards, etc), I often see incredible write speeds in the first few seconds, sometimes in the order of GB/s (filling of the write buffer) followed by several minutes of quiet (buffer actually being written to the device).
I have installed Arch Linux with LUKS on a btrfs file system.