http://snipplr.com/users/noah/tags/service Recent snippets posted on Snipplr.com en-us Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:55:45 GMT http://snipplr.com/view/43113/bash-how-to-start-a-service-and-wait-until-its-up/ Sometimes you need to start a service that takes a while to spin up. Solr and Selenium-RC Server, for instance, can be unavailable for several seconds after the command to start them is issued. Using Netcat, it's easy to poll-and-wait until a newly-started service begins listening on its proper port.

]]> Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:02:26 GMT http://snipplr.com/view/43113/bash-how-to-start-a-service-and-wait-until-its-up/ http://snipplr.com/view/4228/how-to-generate-podcasts-from-hypemachine-searches-or-delicious-tags/ UPDATE: As of Delicious 2.0, regular RSS feeds now work as podcasts in the latest iTunes. Here's how to construct URLs such that they return podcasts for search/tag results. Both del and hypemachine hide these features pretty well, so I thought it was worth it to note the URL patterns here. Note that the del URL only works with /one/ genre tag. Two or more tags and the feed will be empty.

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