background-process

How do I get a background location update every n minutes in my iOS application?

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I’m looking for a way to get a background location update every n minutes in my iOS application. I’m using iOS 4.3 and the solution should work for non-jailbroken iPhones. I tried / considered following options: CLLocationManager startUpdatingLocation/startMonitoringSignificantLocationChanges: This works in the background as expected, based on the configured properties, but it seems not possible … Read more

How to prevent a background process from being stopped after closing SSH client in Linux

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I’m working on a Linux machine through SSH (Putty). I need to leave a process running during the night, so I thought I could do that by starting the process in background (with an ampersand at the end of the command) and redirecting stdout to a file. To my surprise, that doesn’t work. As soon … Read more