> > I'm on a dial on demand connection and I have this script in > /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ for having the mail fetched from my ISP everytime I > make a connection, and then sent locally: > > ----- start script ----- > #!/bin/sh > > /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /etc/fetchmailrc -a -u a4608456 > > /usr/sbin/sendmail -q > ----- end script ----- > > now, this works alright but I'd like to know when everything is over > with a message echoed on screen... how do I go about that?
I don't know exactly what you mean by `echo on the screen'. The most basic thing would be to print in the terminal where the script runs: echo Ready. If you want a window to pop up, you might use xmessage from the xcontrib package: xmessage It\'s done. & Yet another way would be xterm -e sh -c 'echo All is done; read a' & The `read a' portion is used here to wait for someone to hit <enter>. If the ppp script is not running as the user that runs the X11 session (I don't know, never used ppp), then you may have to put something like xhost +localhost in your .xsession file to allow the window to pop up. HTH, Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)
