Comments on: Ed Brayton’s Talk on “Demonizing the ACLU” http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2008/03/27/ed-braytons-talk-on-demonizing-the-aclu/ Wesley R. Elsberry's personal weblog, talking about falconry, science, antievolution, computation, and the broken body he lives in. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:25:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: J. J. Ramsey http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2008/03/27/ed-braytons-talk-on-demonizing-the-aclu/comment-page-1/#comment-183114 J. J. Ramsey Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:36:56 +0000 http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2008/03/27/ed-braytons-talk-on-demonizing-the-aclu/#comment-183114 Or if you are on a machine that's a bit System V-ish: cd /etc/rc.d/init.d/ sudo ./aclu start BTW, I saw the photo that now graces Ed Brayton's blog. Looks good. Or if you are on a machine that’s a bit System V-ish:

cd /etc/rc.d/init.d/
sudo ./aclu start

BTW, I saw the photo that now graces Ed Brayton’s blog. Looks good.

]]> By: Austringer http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2008/03/27/ed-braytons-talk-on-demonizing-the-aclu/comment-page-1/#comment-183100 Austringer Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:36:23 +0000 http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2008/03/27/ed-braytons-talk-on-demonizing-the-aclu/#comment-183100 For those of you reading this who aren't Unix sysadmins, many service programs are called "daemons". They run in the background, and handle particular tasks as needed. Mostly such programs get launched on boot-up, but when a sysadmin has to start a daemon program from the command line, the command line Reed gave is pretty typical. "sudo aclu -d &" Let's take these a step at a time. "sudo" is a program that allows a user to authenticate themselves as a privileged user, the superuser, and execute a command with the privileges of the superuser. Typically one is prompted for the superuser password when "sudo" is invoked. "aclu" is whimsy here, as if the ACLU were implemented as a program on a Unix server. More typically, something like "sendmail" might be launched, a program to handle email traffic. "-d" is a command line parameter that is usually available for daemon programs. When the command line parameter is present, the program puts itself in daemon mode and awaits calls from the operating system to handle tasks. "&" is a parameter that is interpreted by the shell. It tells the shell that the program being executed should not be used interactively, but rather should be made a background process. "Amping off" is a slang term for this, and it means that the program is not tied to the shell invocation, and can persist beyond the time the shell runs. For those of you reading this who aren’t Unix sysadmins, many service programs are called “daemons”. They run in the background, and handle particular tasks as needed. Mostly such programs get launched on boot-up, but when a sysadmin has to start a daemon program from the command line, the command line Reed gave is pretty typical.

“sudo aclu -d &”

Let’s take these a step at a time.

“sudo” is a program that allows a user to authenticate themselves as a privileged user, the superuser, and execute a command with the privileges of the superuser. Typically one is prompted for the superuser password when “sudo” is invoked.

“aclu” is whimsy here, as if the ACLU were implemented as a program on a Unix server. More typically, something like “sendmail” might be launched, a program to handle email traffic.

“-d” is a command line parameter that is usually available for daemon programs. When the command line parameter is present, the program puts itself in daemon mode and awaits calls from the operating system to handle tasks.

“&” is a parameter that is interpreted by the shell. It tells the shell that the program being executed should not be used interactively, but rather should be made a background process. “Amping off” is a slang term for this, and it means that the program is not tied to the shell invocation, and can persist beyond the time the shell runs.

]]> By: Austringer http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2008/03/27/ed-braytons-talk-on-demonizing-the-aclu/comment-page-1/#comment-182941 Austringer Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:35:50 +0000 http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2008/03/27/ed-braytons-talk-on-demonizing-the-aclu/#comment-182941 Reed, your approach to demonizing makes them present and available at all times, which has the opposite effect from what the religious right demonizing procedure aims for. Nice. Reed, your approach to demonizing makes them present and available at all times, which has the opposite effect from what the religious right demonizing procedure aims for.

Nice.

]]> By: Reed A. Cartwright http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2008/03/27/ed-braytons-talk-on-demonizing-the-aclu/comment-page-1/#comment-182418 Reed A. Cartwright Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:16:37 +0000 http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2008/03/27/ed-braytons-talk-on-demonizing-the-aclu/#comment-182418 Okay, but where is the solution to your title. I think it is: sudo aclu -d & Okay, but where is the solution to your title. I think it is:

sudo aclu -d &

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