I have an MVC app. I have a controller that when called runs a background process to query Active Directory and updates the database.
http://myapp/BackgroundTask/Run
I want to run this on a schedule (daily) without opening a browser. I see that there's a lot of third party solutions, is there something built in?
Practically, I need a process which behaves, as if I had pressed Ctrl+Z just after it started.
Hopefully, it is possible to do such thing using a shell script.
(Also, knowing the resulting PID would be great, so I could continue the process afterwards.)
I'm on an Ubuntu 10.04 box, and started a server in the background (myserver &) over ssh. It's been running fine, but I need a way to get at the server's stdin, as the only way to control the server is through this method.
Is there some way to get at the stdin of an already-running process so I can write to it (and hopefully read its stdout)? Obviously, if I were going to be doing this now, I'd start it with a FIFO redirecting to stdin, but unfortunately it's a little late for that now.
Any ideas?
I would like to run mongod in the background as an always present sort of thing. What would be the best way to do this? Kind of like the way I can run MySQL on startup and it's just always there running in the background. Maybe it's just some bash scripts, but it would be nice to hear if there is a better way. If it is just bash - what would that look like? Thanks.
nohup runs a process in the background. There is any equivalent for Windows?