[csw-maintainers] HelpLinker

[Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:13 PM, James Lee<james at oxdrove.co.uk> wrote:
> On 29/07/09, 14:07:09, Maciej "(Matchek)" Blizinski <maciej at opencsw.org>
> wrote regarding HelpLinker:
>
>> What is the HelpLinker you run off cron on the buildfarm?
>
> It is an OpenOffice.org build utility that makes the help pages.
>
> It's run from "at" not "cron" so the build continues after my
> terminal disconnects (damn these ISPs when can't they keep a link
> up longer than 24 hours, actually it allows me to sys-suspend
> too and not stop a build, anything that stops the terminal).

I see. nohup or screen could also work. I thought it was cron because
it was the cron process that was the parent of the HelpLinker
processes.

Thanks for the answer.

Maciej