On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 06:53, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Sure. If your script is called something like "check-xscreensaver"
> the grep finds the script itself.
>
> Why not use "pidof xscreensaver", see man pidof(8)
That was it! The script name was 40xscreensa
On 14 May 2002, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> if ps -A |grep -q "[x]screensaver"; then xscreensaver-command -activate
> else xscreensaver& xscreensaver-command -activate; fi
>
> However, if I put that exact line into a shell script and run it, the if
> ALWAYS gets evaluated as true. Any ideas?
I would
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm sure that I might be missing something obvious here, but after a few
>hours I still haven't figured it out. I'm writing a script to detect
>whether xscreensaver is running and activate it if it is. If not, it
>launches
On 0, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 22:06, Craig Dickson wrote:
> > I cannot reproduce your symptoms. Whether I type your code in at the
> > shell prompt or run it in a script, it always behaves correctly.
> >
> > You don't say what shell you're using (or what
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 22:06, Craig Dickson wrote:
> I cannot reproduce your symptoms. Whether I type your code in at the
> shell prompt or run it in a script, it always behaves correctly.
>
> You don't say what shell you're using (or what version); my tests were
> performed using the version of ba
On 0, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm sure that I might be missing something obvious here, but after a few
> hours I still haven't figured it out. I'm writing a script to detect
> whether xscreensaver is running and activate it if it is. If not, it
> launches the daemon first and
begin Sean 'Shaleh' Perry quotation:
> I could be wrong but I think the if is checking whether ps returned
> successfully or not.
I don't think so. It should be checking the return code of the final
command in the pipe, which in this case is grep.
Craig
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On 15-May-2002 Alex Malinovich wrote:
> I'm sure that I might be missing something obvious here, but after a few
> hours I still haven't figured it out. I'm writing a script to detect
> whether xscreensaver is running and activate it if it is. If not, it
> launches the daemon first and then activa
begin Alex Malinovich quotation:
> I'm sure that I might be missing something obvious here, but after a few
> hours I still haven't figured it out. I'm writing a script to detect
> whether xscreensaver is running and activate it if it is. If not, it
> launches the daemon first and then activates
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