Top Document: comp.sys.3b1 FAQ part2 Previous Document: 8.1. What are the LED's left side of the machine for? Next Document: 8.3. Why did the time display at the top of the screen go away? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge /etc/update is an antiquated command which is no longer necessary to be used. It is not a shell script, but could easily be one. The executable basically takes one argument, the number of seconds to sleep, or defaults to 30 (I believe). It then sleeps that interval and then issues a sync(2) system call. This is a continuous process -- it detaches itself from the current tty with the setpgrp(2) call, and closes all file descriptors 0, 1, and 2 (stdin, stdout, and stderr). It was to be run by /etc/init, as a boot-time process, and was to remain there for the duration of the machine's uptime. User Contributions:Top Document: comp.sys.3b1 FAQ part2 Previous Document: 8.1. What are the LED's left side of the machine for? Next Document: 8.3. Why did the time display at the top of the screen go away? Part1 - Part2 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: jbunch@nyx.nyx.net (John B. Bunch)
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