on Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 01:22:46PM -0500, Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Brian Clark wrote:
> > * Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) [Dec 26. 2001 15:04]:
> >
> > > ## Bind ricochet spam response to 'S'
> > > macro index S "|/usr/local/bin/ricochet & \n"
> >
> > Note, for some versions of Mutt, or some systems, or some planets,
> > one may have to use <pipe-message>, as in:
> >
> > ## Bind ricochet spam response to 'S'
> > macro index S "<pipe-message>/usr/local/bin/ricochet & \n"
>
> Does it really work to run the program in the background? I use
> spamassassin so my command is:
>
> macro index R "|spamassassin -r\n"
>
> I'd love to run that in the background, but my tests tell me it won't
> work. If I make a program called savetofoo:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> rm -f ~/foo
> cat > ~/foo
>
> I can pipe a message into it ("|~/savetofoo") and sure enough, it's saved
> to foo. If I background that though ("|~/savetoofoo &"), it just creates
> a zero length file. This matches how I would expect it to behave; when a
> the shell backgrounds a process, it does not give it a chance to read
> any pending input on stdin.Hmmm... I suspect you're right. Ricochet takes too long to run when it's foregrounded. Suspect I should put a wrapper around it to save the message, then process it (backgrounded or batched). Thanks for catching that. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free We freed Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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