peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
> Suppose ~/.bashrc ends with these 5 lines.
>
> exec while 1 do
> if (inotifywait -e modify ~/control.sh) = 0
> then { chmod u+x ~/control.sh; ~/control.sh; } > controlresult
> fi
> doneYou have that in a loop forever, right? How will you log in? How would you prevent this from hanging up in an infinite loop and preventing you from logging into the account? I think you are saved because of the syntax error. That isn't valid bash shell syntax. Instead I think it would be better to create a daemon that runs as a standalone process not associated with your login shell. Then after developing and debugging and testing it I would copy /etc/init.d/skeleton and modify it to start the daemon at boot time. The process will need to run as root. That is unfortunate. Oh well. > Whenever a fresh version of control.sh is put into ~ it is executed with > results kept in controlresult. > > Any further tips before I shoot myself in the foot? Bob
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