Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 8 years ago. Improve this question I run Counter-Strike servers in linux based os (ubuntu, centos) by web script. I need to find all running process from hlds_linux process … Read more
I know I can run something in the background by adding & to it, such as tail -f log.log I can then resume or send the job to the foregrond with fg However, once I do this, how do I send it to the background again? Ctl-z stops the task, and Ctl-c kills it. When … Read more
This isn’t a typical question and I thought of posting this to Programmers Stack Exchange, but I believe here is more fitting. What I want to do is monitor the Windows background or Login screen from being changed. I’m not entirely sure what the best way to go about this is, but any hints would … Read more
I have a problem capturing wifi data using tcpdump while running in the background. OK, lets get some facts: my wifi-device is named wlan0 wlan0 is in monitor mode (that’s what I want) I’m using tcpdump to capture packets If I run my script manually in the shell, it works well. Now I want to … Read more
I have an Ubuntu 14.04 server and I am trying to start Apache Karaf from a ssh, exit the ssh and expect Karaf to remain execting. What I actually find is that as soon as the last ssh is closed/logged out, the Karaf process is terminated. I start Karaf with the bin/start command as described … Read more
Several Azure PowerShell cmdlets have very tedious run times; a trivial task such as setting a static IP address on a virtual machine can take more than a minute (I guess this is because the cmdlet is actually sending commands to Azure and waiting for Azure to perform the requested task and report back); thus, … Read more
I’m trying to create a systemd-service for a vendor-provided shell-script, which exits after launching the actual service (a Java-program). I don’t want to put the program itself into ExecStart, because the script does a lot of things first (setting up environment variables, etc.) — which lot also changes from version to version. The only means … Read more
I have a makefile that calls external build scripts. Some of these scripts (which I can’t change) make use of commands that are forked / backgrounded (or asynchronous as the bash manual names them) That means that the next line in the makefile can start before some of the previous command finishes – creating a … Read more
I’m trying to shutdown an Ubuntu machine from PHP and am running into an issue if I want to delay the shutdown. The PHP line I’m using is: exec(“sudo shutdown -h +5 &”, $output); Where 5 is however many minutes in the future I want to shutdown. My problem is that this won’t background and … Read more
As a small prank on one of my coworkers I created a group policy object that forced a specific wallpaper (Desktop Background) on her profile whenever she logs in. Laughs were had by all. I deleted the GPO and expected her wallpaper to return to normal. Unfortunately, it did not. Now she is unable to … Read more
