VPN

[Ashenfury]

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

[Cristok]

*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...

[Mohan]

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

[Greebo]

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.

[Ashenfury]

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.

[Pincus]

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

Kids today.

[Ashenfury]

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) &&

[Greebo]

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.

[Pincus]

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

[Greebo]

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.

[Deminthus]

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!