On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 08:19:24PM +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote:
> the/eXtreme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed, 11 Oct 2000:
> > I could use a shell script to `ps' for existing
> > mutt sessions before launching another session;
> > or is there a better way?
>
> How about a shell script that looks (vaguely) like this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> LOCKFILE=~/.mutt.lock
> if [ -f $LOCKFILE ]; then
> echo "Another Mutt session is already running ($LOCKFILE exists)"
> exit 1
> else
> touch $LOCKFILE
> mutt $*
> rm $LOCKFILE
> fi
>
>
> ... That's untested, I just typed it in, but hopefully it will work.
> At the very least, with minor tweaking.
This is the ps solution that I use all the time. I and Rob Reid
developed this some time ago. I call the mutt exectuable realmutt, this
script muttwrap and alias 'mutt' to 'muttwrap -y'.
I know you can open several mutts and write in all of them, but I prefer
to open the 2nd in readonly to remind me that I really did not want to
do it in most cases and if I did it could be in readonly mode.
#!/usr/bin/sh
if ps -U $LOGNAME | grep realmutt > /dev/null
then
echo Warning: You are already running Mutt.
echo Starting mutt in readonly mode.
sleep 2 # Or however many seconds you need to read the
# message before mutt starts.
/usr/local/bin/realmutt -R $*
else
echo Starting Mutt OK
sleep 2
/usr/local/bin/realmutt $*
fi
Cheers, Brian.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Mikko
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