On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:31:42 -0400, Kris Maglione wrote: > It's not supposed to have any output. It just basically disassociates a > process from its parent. You should generally use it when launching > programs from wmiirc so they don't catch any signals if you kill wmiirc. > This would be easier if I could duplicate this. I think your best bet is > some hack like this: > > --- fetchmail.sh 2010-05-27 12:30:39.000000000 -0400 > +++ - 2010-05-27 12:30:48.882841963 -0400 > @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ > 3) > - x-terminal-emulator -e tail -n 200 -f > ~/.fetchmaillog &;; > + ( wmiir setsid x-terminal-emulator -e tail -n > 200 -f ~/.fetchmaillog & )&;; > esac
With that the script already dies as soon as the fetchmaillog window opens :-) Given that this seems to be a problem of dash, maybe I should file a Debian bug report...
