Re: V. basic script question
On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 11:03:05PM +0200, J Horacio MG wrote:
> ~> > I'm on a dial on demand connection and I have this script in
> ~> > /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ for having the mail fetched from my ISP everytime I
> ~> > make a connection, and then sent locally:
> ~> >
> ~> > ----- start script -----
> ~> > #!/bin/sh
> ~> >
> ~> > /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /etc/fetchmailrc -a -u a4608456
> ~> >
> ~> > /usr/sbin/sendmail -q
> ~> > ----- end script -----
> ~> >
> ~> > now, this works alright but I'd like to know when everything is over
> ~> > with a message echoed on screen... how do I go about that?Re: V.
> basic script question
> ~>
> ~> I don't know exactly what you mean by `echo on the screen'. The most
> ~> basic thing would be to print in the terminal where the script runs:
> ~>
> ~> echo Ready.
>
> Well, that's what I tried; I typed that in the script:
>
> ----- start script -----
> #!/bin/sh
>
> /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /etc/fetchmailrc -a -u a4608456
>
> /usr/sbin/sendmail -q
>
> echo Done!
> ----- end script -----
>
> but didn't work. I even tried enclosing in quotes to no success. Just
> now I'm thinking of having it in a script of its own, alphabetically
> sorted so that it's ran after the above script (that might work).
try:
echo Done! > /dev/console
This should print to whatever console you are on (not all consoles, just
the active one).
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