RE: simple shell script

2005-12-08 Thread Murray Taylor
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Re: simple shell script

2005-12-08 Thread Beecher Rintoul
On Thursday 08 December 2005 05:39 am, Will Maier wrote: > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 08:16:31PM -0900, Beecher Rintoul wrote: > > Thanks to you both, I missed the background option. Actually it > > just needs to run in the background to log some hits on a free > > webserver that I use for testing. I

Re: simple shell script

2005-12-08 Thread Will Maier
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 08:16:31PM -0900, Beecher Rintoul wrote: > Thanks to you both, I missed the background option. Actually it > just needs to run in the background to log some hits on a free > webserver that I use for testing. I forget and they will cancel my > account if there's no traffic fo

Re: simple shell script

2005-12-07 Thread Beecher Rintoul
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 07:33 pm, Martin Cracauer wrote: > Dan Nelson wrote on Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 09:52:55PM -0600: > > In the last episode (Dec 07), Beecher Rintoul said: > > > I'm trying to write a simple shell script that will launch a program > > > (in

Re: simple shell script

2005-12-07 Thread Martin Cracauer
Dan Nelson wrote on Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 09:52:55PM -0600: > In the last episode (Dec 07), Beecher Rintoul said: > > I'm trying to write a simple shell script that will launch a program > > (in this case lynx), wait 60 seconds and then kill it. I can get it > > to launch

Re: simple shell script

2005-12-07 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 07), Beecher Rintoul said: > I'm trying to write a simple shell script that will launch a program > (in this case lynx), wait 60 seconds and then kill it. I can get it > to launch the program, but it seems to ignore anything after that. I > am not a p

simple shell script

2005-12-07 Thread Beecher Rintoul
I'm trying to write a simple shell script that will launch a program (in this case lynx), wait 60 seconds and then kill it. I can get it to launch the program, but it seems to ignore anything after that. I am not a programmer so does anyone have a suggestion on this script? Any help wou