Topic

linux

A collection of 12 issues

Disown is your friend

Bash builtin disown is a not-so-well known [job control command] http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Job-Control-Builtins.html), and yet it's an extremely useful one. So what? You've started a remote ssh session, launched some command which is taking very, very long to complete, and you just

Purging outdated kernels on systems with unattended-upgrades

Whenever I install a production system/server I tend to enable full automatic updating, because it's usually better that something breaks because of a failed update rather than leaving a production machine unpatched; and if you pick a rather stable distribution (Centos or Ubuntu LTS are good examples) chances that