From: Robert Bardos (Robert.Bardos@ZUGERKB.CH)
Date: Tue Jun 25 2002 - 10:04:10 EDT
Yep, it does. Thanks to all who replied. A beginner's mistake: I had issued
trap from the command prompt, thinking it would be inherited by the script.
Should have had the word 'shell' in mind ...
Thanks again
Robert
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> trap should work fine. What was your syntax ?
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> Hi all,
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> I am new to this list (and new to AIX, new to shell scripts ....) so
> please
> bear with me.
> My intention is to provide our operators with a simple, telnet based tool
> that allows them to start/stop some subsystems and to watch these
> subsystems' logs continuously. And: as an exercise for myself I want to do
> it all with shell scripts.
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> So basically the logic is:
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> do while true
> echo selection screen
> read user_selection
> case "$user_selection" in
> x) tail -f my_log_file
> .....
> esac
> ....
> done
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> According to the man(ual) and some tests 'tail -f' can only be ended by
> pressing ctrl-c.
> This also cancels my shell script which is not the desired effect. (I
> experimented with the trap command but to no avail). Any idea how I can
> limit ctrl-c to just the 'tail -f' command?
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> Should there be a more appropriate list for this kind of question then
> please advise.
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> Thanks in advance
> Robert
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