On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 10:29 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > > I know there's a lot of history around the syncmail script, does anyone > > know why we don't just stick a & at the end and fork it? > > > > I'm refering to the ctl+c to skip notifications issue. > > >From what I remember, we tried this and it didn't work > /me wonders if this might work: #!/bin/bash message() { echo "Its not done yet. Chill"; } echo "I take a while to complete" # sleep 5 would be replaced with the syncmail script sleep 5 & pid=$! while ps $pid > /dev/null do trap message INT sleep .2 done _______________________________________________ Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list Fedora-infrastructure-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list