Re: [wmii] Need help with mailnotifier, I am confused

How are you calling the script
I did this in my .xinitrc before wmii
while true; do perl /home/alex/.wmii-3.5/mail.pl; sleep 60;done &
which should run the script every minute, you dont need to call the script
from wmiirc at all

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Alex Kilgore <adkilgor_AT_spartan.uncg.edu>
wrote:

> Im gonna have to think that one through, offhand I am not sure what causes
> this
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> but I realized theres one problem with doing a ls -al here, it shows .
> and .. and also it shows a total, so you might want to use
> $mail = `ls -Al | wc -l`;
> $mail--;
> and you could incorporate the formatting when you actually write to the
> file
> so it would be like
> print STAT "$mail"." messages";
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> > When I run the script this directory shows in my home:
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> > /etpipe_decode=$my_pipe_decode;unsetmy_pipe_decode
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> > and it contains the 3 dirs in my INBOX. new, cur, tmp
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> > ???? Not shure though what causes this :-/
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