On 9/28/05, Gerhard Siegesmund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So I have an endless loop which regulary gets the new status. In
> screenrc I put the following line
>
> backtick 1 0 0 my_script.sh
>
> and put the backtick into the statusline.
>
> Now when I start screen my script is started. Everything
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 11:26:33PM +0200, Gerhard Siegesmund wrote:
> Mhm. There is not much to check. The script basically looks like this:
>
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> while true; do
> call_command_to_get something (e.g. fetchmai
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 11:26:33PM +0200, Gerhard Siegesmund wrote:
[...]
> backtick 1 0 0 my_script.sh
Why not get rid of the loop in your script and make screen run it
every X seconds? That will solve your problem (although it doesn't
really suggest the cause).
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Hello Michael
> Hmm, the process that writes to screen should terminate with an error
> if screen is no longer running. It's basically the same as if you
> run "script | less" and quit the pager.
> Du you check the exit status of your commands?
Mhm. There is not much to check. The script basicall
On 9/27/05, Peder Stray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> is it possible to bind somthing like
>
> 'screen url ""'
>
> to a key in screen? possibly with a combination of screen, stuff and paste
> if thats necessary.
Well, you can use writebuf/readbuf. In my screen setup, I bound C-b
(b for b
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 12:10:56AM +0200, Gerhard Siegesmund wrote:
> I did something similar, but asking an imap-Server for the number of
> mails with fetchmail -c. Problem was: The query took several seconds to
> succeed, in which time my screen freezed as the hardstatusline was
> waiting for the
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 11:51:23AM +0200, Thomas Baruchel wrote:
> I set backtick to 1 0 0 rathen than 1 60 1 as explained in another
> Since I like rather the "message" format than the "lastline" (which makes
> less place for applications). It works, but...
I can't think of a screenish way to do
> $ cat ~/.screenrc
> ...
> backtick 1 60 1 /$HOME/bin/screen-checkmail
> ...
> hardstatus alwayslastline ...%1`...
OK. I did it, I wrote a piece of C code sleeping 15 minutes, then
launching "fetchmail -c" and parsing the output in order to have
its own output (I mean my piece
