On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 02:26:51PM +0100, Andre Berger wrote: > I wrote a shell script "/usr/local/bin/mailcheck" (/usr/local/bin/ is in > $PATH of my potato bash) that gives a list of pon "targets" (diff. > ISPs), and is owned by root., perms 755. I've virtually no experience > with shell scripting, so it may be poor quality. Anyway: If the script > is invoked from a command line within or outside X, it works. If it's > invoked via "rxvt -e mailcheck" or "rxvt -ls -e mailcheck", everything > looks normal, but nothing's dialed.
just guessing...: maybe you have different sets of environment variables for the different invocations. From where do you execute the "rxvt ..."? You might want to put a "set >/tmp/somefile" in your script and see if the relevant env settings differ from where you can invoke it successfully... Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --
