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

[Aaron Griffin]

On 9/28/05, Gerhard Siegesmund <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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?

sounds zombified... maybe try "exec myscript.sh" in the backtick
command instead?