On 08/02/08, Dan McGee wrote: > Because you are calling pidof before the process starts- bash does not > do lazy evaluation of your expressions. > > If you want to store the PID of the newly started process, you will > have to make another PID=... call to get it in the else block where > you access it.
Ohh, you are absolutely right. It is working now. I must get this damn Common Lisp out of my head before writing shell scripts next time. I will file a bug report on cups too. Thanks, Michael Krauss
