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

The reason for this, is that you would probably want the echo command to run
very quickly because you want to print the time at a regular interval,
printing the contents of a file every second or however often status() is
run is quicker than having the entire program run every second

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Alex Kilgore <adkilgor_AT_spartan.uncg.edu>
wrote:

> 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
> >
> > 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";
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > When I run the script this directory shows in my home:
> > >
> > > /etpipe_decode=$my_pipe_decode;unsetmy_pipe_decode
> > >
> > > and it contains the 3 dirs in my INBOX. new, cur, tmp
> > >
> > > ???? Not shure though what causes this :-/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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