On 10/21/11 12:12, Prentice Bisbal wrote: >> If you give them an alternative that is well defined with an example >> (not just, "Oh you can use such-and-such instead.") I can hardly believe >> they'll be all that upset. >> > > Ellis, > > Using nohup was exactly the advice I gave to one of my users yesterday. > Not sure if he'll use it. 'man' is a very difficult program to learn, > from what I understand.
Hahaha, I love your cynicism. Right up my alley, however, I think in all seriousness 'man' does fall short for many applications in terms of examples (there are exceptions to this, but most man docs don't have examples from my experience). Many users just want examples of it's use, and can derive their case faster from such than custom-creation of a set of parameters from man. So just take a few moments, cook up an example of 'nohup ./someapp &> out.txt &' usage and associated ways to kill and watch it's output and put it all into an email. Save that email away, and when you're ready just shoot it out to everyone. Or if you have an internal wiki setup, that's much, much better. Just forward a link to some new page on it. If you make even a half-assed effort to show you are providing a viable alternative and a low bar to entry, you'll cut the number of people complaining at least in half. Best, ellis _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
