[ale] Line in fvwmrc.

[nomad]

Jeff Barber wrote:
> 
> nomad writes:
> >
> > I'm trying to put the following line in my fvwmrc...  It has no effect
> > when I execute it...  Any ideas?
> >
> >
> > Exec    "NoPPP"         exec "/sbin/ifconfig ppp0 down; /bin/killall
> > pppd" &
> 
> You're telling fvwm (well, actually the shell) to exec a program called
> "/sbin/ifconfig ppp0 down; /bin/killall pppd" -- it's not able to find
> a file by that name to exec.
> 
> Probably you want something like this:
> 
> Exec    "NoPPP"      ( /sbin/ifconfig ppp0 down; exec /bin/killall pppd ) &
> 

The first reply I got from Toby Chappel was to try :
 Exec "NoPPP" sh -c "(/bin/....  *** ...killall pppd)" & and this worked perfectly.


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