in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Mike Hauber thusly... > > I discovered that with the line "blackbox & bbkeys" in the script, > the bbscript remains when I exit blackbox, and I have to close > bbscript to return to KDM. ... > However, when I login and close bbkeys, then blackbox abruptly > closes (apparently a clean kill), and I return to KDM.
That's what you had asked for. Using '&' after a command, a shell executes the command in the background. Lack of '&' causes the command to be executed in the foreground. Try these two commands in a bourne-like shell (such as ash (FreeBSD sh), ksh93, bash2, bash3) ... sleep 15 && date & sleep 15 && date In your situation, blackbox runs in the background & bbkeys in foreground. If you wanted to run bbkeys only if blackbox runs, then do AND operation ... blackbox && bbkeys ... optionally send the both commands in the background (say, if there are more commands to be run after the two commands)... blackbox && bbkeys & See also... - Get a good introductory Unix book - Man page for the shell which will execute your .xinit - Search "Google Groups" at http://groups.google.com/ ... + comp.unix.* newsgroups for "foreground background process OR command shell" search term + comp.unix.* & comp.windows.x newsgroups for "shell xinitrc OR xsession background" - Parv -- _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
