Oh, so you'd just use sleep for the time in seconds, and use this command after to make it end? I'm not real sure of good places to learn about shell scripting and the like, as I've never done more than simple lists of commands with it, conditionals get sort of tricky, for trying lfs, just typed as the instructions said, and things worked to make it in to a loopback file system. At 09:15 AM 12/28/01 -0500, you wrote: >kill `pidof lynx` aught to work. > >--Michael Gorse / ICQ:22583968 / http://mgorse.home.dhs.org > >On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Brent Harding wrote: > >> Suppose I want to use the lynx --source option to record an mp3 stream >> that will start at a certain time, and I want to stop it at a certain time. >> I could start it with a cron entry, in a script, but how in such a script >> would I cause lynx to terminate, assuming the mp3 stream never quits? >> There's no way of telling lynx --source how much to get if this is in the >> background. >> Thanks. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Blinux-list@redhat.com >> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >> > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list@redhat.com >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > >