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nohup -p on AIX.
The nohup command in AIX has the
ability to “nohup” an existing process and protect if from hangup signals. Using the -p flag, an existing, running process can be “nohup’ed” and told to ignore SIGHUPs. "Why is this useful?" I hear you ask. Well, I'll often start a "long running" process
on a system at work, like a backup for instance. I'll sometimes forget to use the nohup command, so that my long running job will ignore any SIGHUPs and continue
running, say for example if my ssh session to the server dies. The nohup... [More]
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catman -w on AIX.
Have you
ever encountered this error message on AIX before? # man -k loopmount man: 0703-310 file man not found. Create the whatis database using the <catman -w> command
Of course
you have! If you’ve ever installed AIX from scratch then you have undoubtedly
seen this message. And of
course, you dutifully executed the ‘ catman –w ’ command to rectify the situation. Didn’t you? But what if
‘ catman –w ’ doesn’t work as expected? I recently came
across this minor issue. Running catman produced the following error... [More]
Tags: gibson whatis catman chris aix man |
