hello,
I hope someone knows why my desktopmanager(KDM) stops loading when the
commented line in my .login file (which is run by a tcsh shell) is
executed:

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echo "Connecting my ip number to http://ernesto.redirectme.net....."
set noip=`ps -A | grep noip2`
echo "noip is $noip"
if ( "$noip" == "" ) then
echo "noip2 still has to be initialized"
if ( -x /addlin/users/ernesto/tools/noip/noip2) then

# /addlin/users/ernesto/tools/noip/noip2 &

endif
else
echo "noip2 was already started"
endif
echo "Done!"
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Many thanks for any help, it is puzzling me for days now...
note: when I run this shell script after the desktop is loaded,
it works out ok.

Ernst

On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 14:46:50 +0200, Ernst <ernstjaarsma@hotmail.com>
wrote:

> if ( -x /addlin/users/ernesto/tools/noip/noip2) then
>
># /addlin/users/ernesto/tools/noip/noip2 &
SOMETHING has to be here! A commented line is not "something".
>
> endif
>Ernst

On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 09:24:56 -0700, buck wrote:

> On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 14:46:50 +0200, Ernst <ernstjaarsma@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> if ( -x /addlin/users/ernesto/tools/noip/noip2) then
>>
>># /addlin/users/ernesto/tools/noip/noip2 &
> SOMETHING has to be here! A commented line is not "something".
>>
>> endif
>>Ernst

The comment is there because otherwise the system will hang... Unless I
run the script directly from the shell (tcsh) after KDE is loaded all the
way. (noip2 is an executable binary)

on Tuesday 07 September 2004 23:30 Ernst was babbling of...

> On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 09:24:56 -0700, buck wrote:

> The comment is there because otherwise the system will hang... Unless I
> run the script directly from the shell (tcsh) after KDE is loaded all the
> way. (noip2 is an executable binary)

put the comment on the whole if [...] fi stuff...

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