Mike McGrath (mmcgrath@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > /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 Wouldn't that still have a (minimal) race window where it could be interrupted? Bill _______________________________________________ Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list Fedora-infrastructure-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list