Daily Archives: November 3, 2023

I run a small home server with Debian including a autoshutdown script if the system is idle. Since a few days my drives are not staying in standby and with this the server is always running. I analysed this with iotop -bktoqqq -d .5 and the following entry always shows […]

Up to now I know what ARG_MAX means (thanks to EdMorton): ls foo bar The command is ls and it has three arguments: foo, and bar. It’s 7 characters, so the arguments of ls in here is 7. Now let’s suppose this is my script: #!/usr/bin/bash while read -r do_something […]