Re: [newbie] Background execution

2003-08-14 Thread Miark
On 11 Aug 2003 17:15:18 -0400, Dan Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm installing POPFile, a Beysian filtering program for spam. I've > created a startup script but run into a problem. Whenever you execute > the perl script in the background, using "./popfile.pl &", it requires > an ENTER pre

Re: [newbie] Background execution

2003-08-14 Thread Miark
On 11 Aug 2003 20:27:43 -0400, Dan Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, but I'm aware of that. However, I'd prefer to create a script > in /etc/rc.d/init.d that allows me to start, stop and restart the > server. (I'm hacking on the perl source and want to be able to restart > easily.) Eve

Re: [newbie] Background execution

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Jones
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 19:20, Miark wrote: > On 11 Aug 2003 17:15:18 -0400, Dan Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm installing POPFile, a Beysian filtering program for spam. I've > > created a startup script but run into a problem. Whenever you execute > > the perl script in the background

Re: [newbie] Background execution

2003-08-14 Thread Russ Kepler
On Tuesday 12 August 2003 10:56 am, Dan Jones wrote: > On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 21:57, Miark wrote: > > Since you have to press Enter after any command, I guess I'm still not > > clear on the problem. Do you mean you have to press Enter _twice_ before > > getting the prompt back? > > Yes. I enter > >

[newbie] Background execution

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Jones
I'm installing POPFile, a Beysian filtering program for spam. I've created a startup script but run into a problem. Whenever you execute the perl script in the background, using "./popfile.pl &", it requires an ENTER press before you get your command prompt back. What causes this, and how do I fi

Re: [newbie] Background execution

2003-08-12 Thread Dan Jones
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 21:57, Miark wrote: > On 11 Aug 2003 20:27:43 -0400, Dan Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks, but I'm aware of that. However, I'd prefer to create a script > > in /etc/rc.d/init.d that allows me to start, stop and restart the > > server. (I'm hacking on the perl s

[newbie] Background image

2001-11-04 Thread Søren Neigaard
Can I have a background image on one virtual desktop, and none on another? How do I do it? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] background images - SUCCESS and thank y'all

2000-02-06 Thread Paul Derbyshire
At 11:42 PM 2/6/00 -0500, you wrote: >I didn't even know about 'which.' I used " whereis xloadimage " to >find WHERE it was. 'Which' is neat. Will have to add that to my list >of tricks. whereis?? I didn't know about that :-) >There's probably a console utility for that if I just knew the c

Re: [newbie] background images - SUCCESS and thank y'all

2000-02-06 Thread dave
Paul Derbyshire wrote: > > Interesting what you find when you poke randomly in man pages and other > docs. Or read a random shell script from the system and man everything > unfamiliar you see in the file that looks like it might be a command or a > standard file name. > > The "which" thing, to

Re: [newbie] background images - SUCCESS and thank y'all

2000-02-06 Thread Paul Derbyshire
At 11:02 PM 2/6/00 -0500, you wrote: >(just found out the hard way) the path to xloadimage: > >31 * * * * /usr/X11R6/bin/xloadimage -onroot etc $ which xloadimage /usr/X11R6/bin/xloadimage $ Interesting what you find when you poke randomly in man pages and other docs. Or read a random shell scri

Re: [newbie] background images - SUCCESS and thank y'all

2000-02-06 Thread dave
dave wrote: > First, crontab -e to edit a crontab file. In it I have: > 30 * * * * /usr/bin/wget -O /root/rad_at.gif > http://weather.unisys.com/radar/rad_at.gif > 31 * * * * xloadimage -onroot -fullscreen /root/rad_at.gif > Your image file would probably be different for your geographic area, >

Re: [newbie] background images - SUCCESS and thank y'all

2000-02-06 Thread dave
Cameron Kerr wrote: > > Try copying the image, then using a command like > xloadimage -root blah blah blah That's it! Thanks! I _knew_ there had to be a simple command for it ... xloadimage was what I was looking for. Now it all works and I'm done ... those who are interested in doing this, he

RE: [newbie] background images

2000-02-06 Thread Cameron Kerr
Try copying the image, then using a command like xloadimage -root blah blah blah -Original Message- From: dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 7 February 2000 3:05pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] background images I guess a better way to ask what I've been wo

[newbie] background images

2000-02-06 Thread dave
I guess a better way to ask what I've been working on lately (keeping up-to-date radar images as desktop background images) might be to ask: how can one assign a background image from the console? The act of doing so will refresh it - but just copying a new file of the same name over the old fil

Re: [newbie] background

1999-12-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
John.er...it was a one-hour special using the "7 Days" time slot and then a new episode with Marina Sirtis & Dwight Schultz guest-starring. A really neat off-beat episode. Alan John Aldrich wrote: > > On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, you wrote: > > padlocke wrote: > > > > > > Fellas... What in tarn

Re: [newbie] background

1999-12-02 Thread padlocke
Yes it is &... Thanks a bunch. On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, you wrote: > padlocke wrote: > > > > Fellas... What in tarnation is the command line switch that runs an application > > in the background? > > > > Thanks ya'll :) > > > > *sorry about that... I'm working on my southern dialect* > > > > PadL

Re: [newbie] background

1999-12-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, you wrote: > padlocke wrote: > > > > Fellas... What in tarnation is the command line switch that runs an application > > in the background? > > > > Thanks ya'll :) > > > > *sorry about that... I'm working on my southern dialect* > > > > PadLocke the Ogre > > OOOooo... ther

Re: [newbie] background

1999-12-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, you wrote: > >From Unix, it's just a case of putting an ampersand after the command to > move it to the background. I have not tried it for Linux. > That often does work in Linux. :-) John

Re: [newbie] background

1999-12-02 Thread Sean Armstrong
padlocke wrote: > > Fellas... What in tarnation is the command line switch that runs an application > in the background? > > Thanks ya'll :) > > *sorry about that... I'm working on my southern dialect* > > PadLocke the Ogre > OOOooo... there's a new Voyager on tonight :):) Is it & ? I think it

Re: [[newbie] background]

1999-12-02 Thread Michael Scottaline
padlocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fellas... What in tarnation is the command line switch that runs an application > in the background? > > Thanks ya'll :) > > *sorry about that... I'm working on my southern dialect* > > PadLocke the Ogre > OOOooo... there's a new Voyager on tonight :):) ===

Re: [newbie] background

1999-12-02 Thread Simon Norris
>From Unix, it's just a case of putting an ampersand after the command to move it to the background. I have not tried it for Linux. - Original Message - From: padlocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 12:06 AM Subject:

Re: [newbie] background

1999-12-02 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, padlocke wrote: > Fellas... What in tarnation is the command line switch that runs an application > in the background? > > Thanks ya'll :) > > *sorry about that... I'm working on my southern dialect* > > PadLocke the Ogre > OOOooo... there's a new Voyager on tonight :):) d

[newbie] background

1999-12-02 Thread padlocke
Fellas... What in tarnation is the command line switch that runs an application in the background? Thanks ya'll :) *sorry about that... I'm working on my southern dialect* PadLocke the Ogre OOOooo... there's a new Voyager on tonight :):)

[newbie] Background jobs

1999-11-14 Thread Eric L. Damron
I need to start a job in the background (jobname &) but sometimes I need to bring it back to the forground to "talk to it" and then put it back into the background. Can anyone tell me how to do this? Thanks.