Now Now
Mustn’t be catty
you could be notty.
A couple of weeks ago, I was looking at my syslogs on my primary workstation and saw a bunch of error messages the looked 'interesting' that had references to something "notty".
I'm like "notty"? What the hell is that. A little searching found the term. What they are talking about was that there was "no tty" available for a process. (A "tty" goes way back to the days of hard-wired dumb terminals and accoustic couplers it's another way of saying "terminal", be it a network terminal, or a physical console)
If they'd bothered to include the space, or an "_" between the 'no' and the 'tty', I'd have known what it was talking about immediately. Perhaps I should have anyway, because there is a process called "getty" relates to a process that spawns console processes. Learn something new every day I guess...
Since it's silly time on Friday, I have a conundrum for the nerds here...
Why is it that when you kill a process, it's the opposite from when you execute it?
:-)