From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2494 invoked from network); 22 Jun 1999 22:31:59 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 22 Jun 1999 22:31:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 160 invoked by alias); 22 Jun 1999 22:31:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 2408 Received: (qmail 127 invoked from network); 22 Jun 1999 22:31:40 -0000 Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 00:29:12 +0200 From: Thomas Koehler To: Roland Jesse Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: Best place to put `mesg n` into? Message-ID: <19990623002911.A5712@willkuere.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <19990622092132.A18495@loriot.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> <5l7low1531.fsf@tequila.cs.yale.edu> <14192.1621.889828.344149@cs.uni-magdeburg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <14192.1621.889828.344149@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>; from Roland Jesse on Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 11:55:33PM +0200 X-Operating-System: Linux willkuere 2.0.36 On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 11:55:33PM +0200, Roland Jesse wrote: >=20 > Stefan Monnier writes: >=20 > > I might be hopelessly confused, but I seemed to remember that > >=20 > > xterm -e foo bar > >=20 > > does *not* use any shell whatsoever. >=20 > That's hard to believe. ~> xterm -e slrn & ~> pstree [...] |-xterm---zsh-+-mozilla---mozilla | |-pstree | `-xterm---slrn ^^^^^ ^^^^ No shell here Still unbelievable? :-) > But Bart's sollution (using xterm -ut) works great.=20 good :-) > Thank you much anyway. Your help is very much appreciated. Another (more complicated) solution would use zsh :-) xterm -e zsh -c "mesg n ; your_command" Of course, this adds an extra zsh to the process table... > Roland CU, Thomas --=20 Thomas K=F6hler Email: jean-luc@picard.franken.de <>< WWW: http://home.pages.de/~jeanluc/ IRC: jeanluc LCARS --- Linux for Computers on All Real Starships