[olug] kill process question

[Craig Wolf]

I have the user double-clicking an icon on the desktop of their client. 
It runs a process to do an scp from a mac client to my Linux server
asking the user for the password, copying their files over for backup
purposes, and then exiting the terminal window.  Would the exec work for
that vs the ps aux command line that I got earlier?

Craig Wolf
Linux Web Server Support
Desktop/Network Specialist
402-894-6283


>>> "Daniel Linder" <dan at linder.org> 8/26/2005 >>>


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On Fri, August 26, 2005 10:35, Sean Kelly wrote:

> Why not just run it with `exec`?

> 

>   g4:~ smkelly$ exec ls

> 

> That will run `ls` and then quit the shell. Well, technically `ls`
is

> replacing the shell and thus when `ls` exits there is nothing left

> controlling the terminal.



This will work in most cases, but if he is doing a "tail -f
/var/tmp/messages" then that window will stay open forever since the
tail -f never dies.



Dan



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