Hey cake, I looked at your script & i’m not sure I like the idea of generating a child script on the fly each time.

Couldn’t you put all that stuff in a function and exec the function in the background? That way no writing to /tmp is needed?

mebbe?

I dont know how to fork functions to background. This basically writes a temporary script then calls root to run it.
Maybe if im really nice you can show me how 🙂

Hey cake, I was thinking more like this…

1: #!/bin/ksh
2:
3: background()
4: {
5: sleep 10
6: echo “Background”
7: sleep 10
8: }
9:
10: echo “ps before background function”
11: ps
12: background &
13: echo “My PID=$$”
14: echo “Background function PID=$!”
15: echo “ps after background function”
16: ps
17: exit 0

Of course this is ksh, but I reckon bash would be pretty similar.

I got the example from here

Also, I your parameters could use being named something meaningful, even though they are just passthroughs (is that a word?). Sorry for being picky, I do a lot of shell script reviews @ work.

Hello! Actually I rather appreciate you helping me out.
I wouldnt know what to call them 🙂 Except I could add a remark in there. i try forking the process n see if it goes! brbbrbrbrbrb

I did shell scripting on and off at work for a few years. The more I did, the more I ended up writing functions a lot & having the majority of my logic inside them.

The main part of the shell script then becomes just a composition of the functions.

I guess thats why I suggested using a function to execute the code in the background.

hey nice work noobitup. thats a damn handy trick.

Attention everyone: There is now going to be a third version so dont download that crap attached.
yeah i am a big fan of having hierarchy, and having worker-bee scripts.
i rather enjoy having multiple scripts running looped that communicate via the file system with their own pids and stuff.

Did u get a new version of your script working cake?

Pls post when its done and i’ll code review it & tell u all the stuffs ur doing wrong.

Yusss I found a corn chip that looks like the atari logo
OH NO I ATE IT

well this sucks 😥