On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 12:00, Iain Buchanan wrote: > I have a litte problem for which I'm looking for ideas. I want to run a > program in while loop like this: > > while :; do rdesktop host; sleep 1; done > > However, if I put this into a launcher on my menu: > > bash -c "while :; do rdesktop host; sleep 1; done" > > then when I disconnect, it reconnects again! So I want the while loop > to exit when I disconnect, but not if the server refuses the > connection... > > Any ideas? I guess I could try and get the return value of rdesktop, but > I don't know how to do that in bash... yet! The first case is when I have disabled remote connections under Windows XP. The return value in this case is "1". [dey@Devil dey]$ rdesktop 192.168.3.10 ERROR: connect: Connection refused [dey@Devil dey]$ echo $? 1 Now I have enabled remote connections to Windows XP pc and then manually closed the rdesktop window. The return value in this case "0". [dey@Devil dey]$ rdesktop 192.168.3.10 [dey@Devil dey]$ echo $? 0 Using the above "echo $?" you can take the exit condition and put in a conditional while loop instead of infinite while. Best of luck, -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
