From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 8 03:47:25 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 6397A16A41F for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 03:47:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from akbeech@gmail.com) Received: from vfemail.net (miwi2dsl-a234.wi.tds.net [216.170.248.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B7E343D5C for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 03:47:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from akbeech@gmail.com) Received: (qmail 96072 invoked by uid 85); 8 Dec 2005 03:47:15 -0000 Received: from akbeech@gmail.com by mail.vfemail.net by uid 0 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (clamscan: 0.75.1. spamassassin: 2.63. Clear:. Processed in 1.755168 secs); 08 Dec 2005 03:47:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.241.108?) (alaska@vfemail.net@24.237.206.237) by miwi2dsl-a234.wi.tds.net with RC4-MD5 encrypted SMTP; 8 Dec 2005 03:47:13 -0000 From: Beecher Rintoul Organization: NorthWind Communications To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 18:46:50 -0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1962841.BzEY3CTrjq"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200512071847.05393.akbeech@gmail.com> Subject: simple shell script X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 03:47:25 -0000 --nextPart1962841.BzEY3CTrjq Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline I'm trying to write a simple shell script that will launch a program (in th= is=20 case lynx), wait 60 seconds and then kill it. I can get it to launch the=20 program, but it seems to ignore anything after that. I am not a programmer = so=20 does anyone have a suggestion on this script? Any help would be appreciated. Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - System Administrator - akbeech@gmail.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | NorthWind Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://akparadise.byethost33.com =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart1962841.BzEY3CTrjq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDl6y5Vq19LUoGB+MRAgooAJ9imppsen6peYFKh3Ujzz9sbjT9HgCfXlv0 eNx2U6O6qV1G83cSPBR5eic= =VHza -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1962841.BzEY3CTrjq--