Grim Views

We use VPNs at work to do everything. After rebuilding a database remotely I have to create daily partitions so that we can reload old data and have partitions to import data into going forward.

Halfway through a 4-5 hours process they bounce their VPN... I try to explain that they just caused me several hours of work because I now have to go clean up defunct processes and dirty partitioning.

One of those days. /vent

*Ashenfury continues speaking some odd language and emitting non-sensical sounds* There there...*Cristok just rubs his belly, unable to understand the poor creatures dilema* Its ok big fellla...

Strange. This is exactly how my Ashenfury-Cristok fanfic starts...

Why are you running a live session rather than putting them in the background? I mean it is a serious drag and people shouldn't be screwing with live communications channels without scheduling it but lord knows *I* wouldn't trust my network people.

I guess I could have written a script and then ran that in the background. That's actually very simple and a very good idea. I'll probably do that in the future.

I guess I don't do it right now just out of habit of doing it by hand and then observing how long it takes. I could just check the timestamps instead of watching it.

God damnit people, does anyone use screen or VNC or even nohup?

Kids today.

Yes, I use screen and it is very helpful for when I leave things to run overnight. I don't use it when I expect to watch it.

VNC won't help if the network VPN is broken... then my VNC terminal is broken too.

Nohup is what I was talking about when I said I would write a script and run that script in the background. nohup ashensscript.ksh(which will sql and perform work) &&

Most modern linuxii don't need nohup if you shove things in the background (tested on Redhat, Gentoo, Slackware, CentOS, Ubuntu within the last 5 years but ymmv). Useful if you like having lots of nohup.out files scattered around your fs though.

The thing with VNC is that if your VNC client drops, your xterms don't go with it as well....

Pincus wrote:The thing with VNC is that if your VNC client drops, your xterms don't go with it as well....

QFT - and I use ssh port forwarding to avoid any firewall config issues. Assuming you have X and a VNC daemon on your db server mind you, which certainly isn't a given.

Ashenfury wrote:Nohup is what I was talking about when I said I would write a script and run that script in the background. nohup ashensscript.ksh(which will sql and perform work) &&

Finally!!! Gimme a damn script to write foo!