filed in Linux, Mac OS X, Unix on Dec.29, 2011
& – This causes the application to run in the background. You will get a new shell prompt after issuing this command. nohup and disown – Both of these prevent SIGHUP (hangup) signals so the application isn’t killed when the terminal session is closed. nohup does this when the job starts. disown can be used [...]
Tags: &, bsd, disown, linux, mac, nohup, OS X, unix
filed in Linux, Scripts on Sep.19, 2010
I’ve been messing around with rsync lately on one of my linux machines. I’ve been looking for a simple solution that would provide something similar to Apple’s Time Machine software. There are obviously some open source packages that could provide this functionality for me, but I just wanted something really simple that could be automated. [...]
Tags: bsd, linux, rsync, script, time machine, unix
