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Using the UNIX/Linux sleep command to pause a shell script or command for a short time. And other useful commands.

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The Linux sleep command will enable you to pause a Linux command for a short time. The example below has our command halting for 5 seconds before executing. The suffix s means seconds, this is useful for halting a script whilst you are waiting for something else to run. C:\HOME\FLYNN\DESKTOP> sleep 5s ; ps PID … Read more

How to set the correct time with the command-line on Debian.

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Setting the system time with Debian Linux is very simple, using the date command, you may display the current date/time, then copy this to the date -s “” command and then edit it to the proper value. This is the easiest technique to set the Linux system time. This is the existing date. root@deusexmachina:/home/neo# date … Read more

OpenSuse 11.3. Setting the time and managing services.

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When managing services on OpenSuse 11.3 the best way is to use the service command. One example is to synchronize the time with an Internet time server. I have NTP setup so I can just type: service ntp restartservice ntp restart That command will restart the NTP daemon and set the time on your machine … Read more