On 10 Jan Jukka Salmi wrote: > > Hmm, is "Ubuntu Christian Edition" required to ship totally > daemon-free? > ;-) I wouldn't know about that, actually I use Gentoo ;-) But just to take you up on the "daemons", if you want to be free from the real demons - those evil powers that control people's lives - you need to be connected to the Supreme Power whose name is Jesus - for further information see www.livenet.ch, www.gott.de ;-)
Anyway, to get back to the original subject, let me admit that I know far less about Bash scripting than about the Bible! And realising that this forum is run by very knowledgable software developers, I hope that there is some room for ordinary computer users like myself who need some help with the basics still. So in short, I haven't been able to implement your "loop in a loop" script in my .xinitrc, because I don't understand much of its syntax. Can you please help me? Here's your snippet again: for (i=0; ; i=(i+1)%m) { execute non-fetchmail commands if (!i) execute fetchmail sleep for n seconds } And this is my .xinitrc: ... while true do echo `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'` `date +'%a %d %b %R'` `fetchmail -c --sslproto tls |sed 's/(//'|awk '{print $1-$3}'` sleep 2 done | dwm Thanks a lot, Peter -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen P. Vollmar Dipl. Übersetzer HDS VOLLMAR ÜBERSETZUNGS-SERVICE CH-9248 BICHWIL, SWITZERLAND Tel/Fax: +41 071 952'77'45 Homepage: www.vollmar.ch Aktuell: www.vollmar.ch/download Computer: www.vollmar.ch/linux