You can accomplish what you want, but it is typically a bad idea. Several ASP.NET blog and CMS engines take this approach, because they want to be installable on a shared hosting system and not take a dependency on a windows service that needs to be installed. Typically they kick off a long running thread … Read more
Your problem is that you misunderstand the purpose of the servlet. It’s intented to act on HTTP requests, nothing more. You want just a background task which runs once on daily basis. EJB available? Use @Schedule If your environment happen to support EJB (i.e. a real Java EE server such as WildFly, JBoss, TomEE, Payara, … Read more
I found the solution from the second comment you provided, Trengot, thanks. It turns out that I had some dangling blobs, which were in .git/objects/17 and hence triggering the packing: $ git fsck dangling blob d9ff0aeac4aa8b4e0907daed675ebf60278bc977 dangling blob dbff2d073741f9775c815d4a3c623736af224dad dangling blob e1ffbab1c5b985cd1cd3bc0281075ea2ed80744a dangling blob fdff59878ccb3a75689f4acca615cfb635288774 This cleaned them up: $ git gc –prune=now Be aware, … Read more
If you want something lightweight, that runs in the same process as the server, I highly recommend Bull. It has a simple API that allows for a fine grained control over your queues. If you’re looking for something that runs as a standalone worker process, perhaps look into Kue. It can run as a RESTful … Read more
I found a solution to implement this with the help of the Apple Developer Forums: Specify location background mode Create an NSTimer in the background with UIApplication:beginBackgroundTaskWithExpirationHandler: When n is smaller than UIApplication:backgroundTimeRemaining it will work just fine. When n is larger, the location manager should be enabled (and disabled) again before there is no … Read more
Check out the “nohup” program.
You need to save the PID of the background process at the time you start it: foo & FOO_PID=$! # do other stuff kill $FOO_PID You cannot use job control, since that is an interactive feature and tied to a controlling terminal. A script will not necessarily have a terminal attached at all so job … Read more
nohup node server.js > /dev/null 2>&1 & nohup means: Do not terminate this process even when the stty is cut off. > /dev/null means: stdout goes to /dev/null (which is a dummy device that does not record any output). 2>&1 means: stderr also goes to the stdout (which is already redirected to /dev/null). You may … Read more