#!/bin/sh # $Id: tailboxbg,v 1.9 2010/01/13 10:20:03 tom Exp $ . ./setup-vars . ./setup-tempfile ./killall listing ./listing >listing.out & $DIALOG --title "TAIL BOX" \ --no-kill "$@" \ --tailboxbg listing.out 24 70 2>$tempfile # wait a while for the background process to run sleep 10 # now kill it kill -3 `cat $tempfile` 2>&1 >/dev/null 2>/dev/null # ...and the process that is making the listing ./killall listing