PeterMaybe you've just installed a dual boot system. It's all going well and good, but when you start the computer, Windows appears at the bottom of the boot menu.
You might still want to use Windows as your primary operating system, and so pressing down a few times and Enter each boot time could get frustrating. You'd ideally like Windows at the top of the boot menu ...
Peter
I recently posted about using nohup to run a command, particularly on a remote machine, that keeps running even when you close the terminal or connection that started it.
Several people in the comments there also suggested GNU Screen for a similar purpose.
So, what is Screen? It describes itself as:
... a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells.
Basically, among other things ...
Peter
Oftentimes you'll be in a situation where you want to run a command on a remote machine that will take a long time to complete, but you want to be able to issue the command and then log off and have that command run in the background.
There are many ways you could achieve this, perhaps by using cron or at to schedule the command to run right away ...
