From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 4 01:15:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCB0716A4CE for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2004 01:15:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nwlynx.network-lynx.net (nwlynx.network-lynx.net [63.122.185.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75F0A43D5F for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2004 01:15:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Don@Silver-Lynx.com) Received: from [70.57.246.81] (helo=Silver-Lynx.com) by nwlynx.network-lynx.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.42 #4) id 1CaOX3-000NAw-HR by authid with fixed_cram for ; Fri, 03 Dec 2004 18:16:17 -0700 Message-ID: <41B10FC0.90403@Silver-Lynx.com> Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 18:15:44 -0700 From: Don Wilde User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031028 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: shell programming challenge X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 01:15:52 -0000 Resolved: After a bit more work and lots of good suggestions, I came up with xterm -e bash --rcfile .myrcfile -i -c "./ticktock && exec bash" & It does everything I was expecting (assuming your regular .bashrc doesn't trash the things you set up in the first environment!) Thanks, all! -- Don Wilde ---------> Silver Lynx <---------- Raising the Trajectory of Human Development --------------------------------------------- http://www.Silver-Lynx.com