On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 19:46 -0600, »Q« wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: >
> > To get around it, perhaps you could keep "state" with a file. eg > > (untested): > > [big snip] > > > HTH! > > It certainly did; thanks very much! After some tinkering (my > understanding of testing syntax in bash scripts is pretty weak), I've > got the scheme you suggested working fine. cool, thanks for letting me know! glad I could help. I just had a thought though - the file you use should probably go somewhere more sane, like /var/run or something like that. cya, -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> I'm sure a mathematician would claim that 0 and 1 are both very interesting numbers. :-) -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list