On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 14:36 -0500, matias kaukonen wrote:
> What I'm trying to do is enable the watch command to run a prog named
> fetchmail.run.
> The following command string does not work when run in the background
> (it
> works ok from the foreground):
>
> watch -n 30 fetchmail.run > /dev/null &
>
> fetchmail.run
> if ["`ps --User matias | grep fetchmail`" == ""]; then
> /usr/bin/fetchmail -f ~/.fetchmailrc --mda "procmail -f %F"
> > /dev/null 2>&1; fi
>
> Is there some technique to fix this that's concise and easy to
> understand?
>
> thx.,
> matias.
> ~
watch is probably stopping on signal 19 because of tty access.
Seems to me that you just want to run this command every 30 seconds. Why
not just put a loop in the fetchmail.run script?
while sleep 30
do
...
done
-Chris
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