David Douthitt wrote:
>
> All this talk of this "ticker" program - is there any real need for
> even a 3k program to twirl the cursor on a firewall?
That was funny. What I do, if I really want
to give the user some feedback is built in a
series if dots ...
one for each statemen
Hi David
> All this talk of this "ticker" program - is there any real need for
> even a 3k program to twirl the cursor on a firewall?
I agree with that, i prefer to use that amount of memory to your
beep.lrp :).
> I think this was one of the few programs that I outright got rid of
> when I con
All this talk of this "ticker" program - is there any real need for
even a 3k program to twirl the cursor on a firewall?
I think this was one of the few programs that I outright got rid of
when I configured Oxygen in the beginning...
--
David Douthitt
UNIX Systems Administrator
HP-UX, Unixware, L
On 1/24/02 at 8:42 AM, Charles Steinkuehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> ticker &
> PID=$!
> more stuff here...
> kill $PID
I wrote a program that puts a timeout on a timed prompt, and it uses
that method - but "...more stuff here..." means:
sleep $DELAY
or something like that. I think I
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Date: January 24, 2002 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Leaf-devel] Ticker script
>> 1) How do you fork this thing so that, for example, you can do a backup?
>
>Just like always from a shell script:
> ticker &
>
>
> 1) How do you fork this thing so that, for example, you can do a backup?
Just like always from a shell script:
ticker &
> 2) Using the shell will creat a job (typically "sh /usr/sbin/ticker") that
> will not be recognized by the "killall ticker" command.
Actually, it does work (try it and s
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but...
>#!/bin/sh
>trap 'exit' 0 2 5 15
>echo -n " "
>while : ; do
> for i in \\ \| / - ; do
>echo -e -n "\b$i"
>sleep 1
> done
>done
>
>Charles Steinkuehler
1) How do you fork this thing so that, for example, you can do a backup?
2) Using the shell
