1. What is on Your Mind?

Just a test thread. (0 Replies)

2. Programming

can someone provide an example, where if the parent process quits for any reason, then the child process will also close? (3 Replies)

3. OS X (Apple)

Can anyone tell me what the command(s) are for adding a new account through the terminal application in OS X? I've been looking around the man pages but can't find anything. (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

For a small script i want it so that the terminal closes when the script has completed its tasks. To do so i use at the end if the script the following: echo "Hello, World!" echo "Knowledge is power." echo "" echo "shutting down terminal in 10 seconds" exit 10 however the terminal stay's... (3 Replies)

5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Is there a trick to closing a mac terminal with a command? I would think you could just type exit into your terminal but that doesn't work. I also tried quit and close just for the hell of it and that didn't work either. Does anyone know what the command is? (1 Reply)

6. Programming

i must close server after a specific user input, such as FINE, if i put a test inside function "maiuscolatore" i receive an error on second recv of client. why? below there are code of client and server: CLIENT: #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> #include... (0 Replies)

7. OS X (Apple)

When I open terminal the user account name changes from my account name to "some-guy" ie this is what I see when I open it: Last login: Sun Jun 5 15:27:51 on ttys000 some-guy:~ backupuser$ What does this mean please and how can I get rid of it? I dont have any blue tooth or anything in... (5 Replies)

8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi, In one of the circumstances, my manager asked my password and opened unix terminal (Putty) with my user credentials. Its been more than 2 days that terminal is opened (saw it through finger command). How do I close that terminal which is not opened in my pc. I'm very uncomfortable of the... (11 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello All, Here I am trying to login a Linux machine as admin user from a Solaris box.. & then switch to root user.. Code I use: ssh admin@<IP> << END su - root << A echo "Hello I am logged in as root" exit A exit END But the error I get.. su: must be run from a... (3 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I am running a bash script to do an rsync back on a computer running MacOS High Sierra. This is the script I am using, #!/bin/bash # main backup location, trailing slash included backup_loc="/Volumes/Archive_Volume/00_macos_backup/" # generic backup function function backup {... (12 Replies)