In the business world, Unix computers are typically used for server applications and high-end graphics workstations, such as those used in creating computer graphics. Even if you're not a system ...

Security and the Linux process In his latest entry, Dana asks whether the Linux process is insecure, because it's not possible to warn the "vendor" before warning the general public about security ...

The syslog deamon (syslogd) on Unix systems provides message logging for other services so that each service doesn’t have to duplicate the same basic functionality to manage logging for itself. The ...

Daniel Colascione submitted some code to support processes knowing when others have terminated. Normally a process can tell when its own child processes have ended, but not unrelated processes, or at ...

The Linux operating system has proliferated rapidly within the middle levels of the banking world, especially in high-powered analysis machines, and now financial institutions are looking at it for ...

When you disown a Linux process in bash, you keep it from being terminated when you log out and allow it to finish on its own. This post shows how to use the disown command. When you want a process to ...