Re: [monitoring-like] would like to be warned when I have mail (fetchmail -c)

[Gerhard Siegesmund]

Hello Michael

> Hmm, the process that writes to screen should terminate with an error
> if screen is no longer running. It's basically the same as if you
> run "script | less" and quit the pager.
> Du you check the exit status of your commands?

Mhm. There is not much to check. The script basically looks like this:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/sh

while true; do
  call_command_to_get something (e.g. fetchmail -c)
  echo something
  sleep some time
done
------------------------------------------------------------------------

So I have an endless loop which regulary gets the new status. In
screenrc I put the following line

backtick 1 0 0 my_script.sh

and put the backtick into the statusline.

Now when I start screen my script is started. Everything works great.
But after ending screen the script still lives on. Where did I miss
something?

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