----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Sensney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 6:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] mnc and scripts
> However, there is another rather crude way that I think will work.
>
> <code>
> echo $data | mnc $address $port &
> pid=$!
> sleep 5
> kill $pid
> </code>
Thanks Mike, it works just how I want to, crude or not :-).
> What this does is
> 1)run mnc as a background task
> 2)saves the background task PID
> 3)sleeps 5 seconds
> 4)kills the background task (mnc)
And thanks for the rundown on what's happening.
tim
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