> On Wednesday 25 August 2004 11:08, Martin McCarthy wrote: > I'm a bit hazy on the whole trap thing - I'd have tried running the > child in in the background and using wait to ensure jobs run > sequentially.
ah, bur what's presently happening is that say /foo/30_stuff hangs and I want to cancel it with a crtl-c, allowing my run-parts to go onto /foo/40_morestuff it seems to be OK with just the "trap '' 2" from the run-parts .... so far :-) A _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish