Udo Richter wrote: > C.Y.M wrote: >> Thanks for your replay, but I was looking for a switch that would make >> vdr run a >> script right after vdr starts up. > > If you want to start a program together with VDR, why don't you put it > into your runvdr script? > Because in the runvdr script, the vdr command is executed by an "eval" statement which basically waits for the process to die before it continues on. eval "$VDRCMD" if test $? -eq 0 -o $? -eq 2; then exit; fi echo "`date` Reloading DVB drivers" ... This is how the script makes vdr will restart automatically when it crashes. I'm looking for a way to have vdr execute the command so I dont have to guess with sleep statements. BR.