Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3442 mails)

[Geoff <capsthorne@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi David,

Apropos the autostart, I played around somewhat and came up with the following
(which I will also send also by private email).  There are bound to be better
ways of doing it, but it might at least serve a proof of concept.  You might be
able to substitute it for the line that presently autostarts Netscape in YAST2.

Regards,

Geoff


#!/bin/bash

###########################################################################

# This script checks if Netscape or Firestarter is running.  If either is not
# running, then it is started.  If it is running, then do nothing vis a vis
# that program.
# The assumption is that the script is run by root.  The Firestarter part
# would need tweaking if it is not.

###########################################################################

# grep the process tree for running instances of the programs.
# Redirect the output to files, which will be of zero
# length if the no running instance is found.  There is probably a nicer
# way to do this, but it appears to work.

ps auxc | grep netscape > netscape_running
ps auxc | grep firestarter > firestarter_running

# If the netscape file is of zero length then start netscape as a background job

if  ! test -s netscape_running; then netscape &
fi

# Ditto for firestarter

if  ! test -s firestarter_running; then firestarter &
fi

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