Thanks to all who have replied. > rxvt -e su - clists -c pine
This works very nicely from the same machine, and may be adequate for what I need to do. You're right, pine and ssh don't play well together, but a shell script may work; I will put that in my bag o' tricks. The other suggestions, while correct, won't work in my specific situation. I don't have access to the machine that handles my main (campus) mail account, so I can't run procmail on it (which is, of course, the right way to go). I considered setting my campus account to forward to a local account on my office machine, but that has significant downsides (that is, I have to worry about making sure my machine is always available - losing mail on that account would be worse than on others). Thanks again- Andy Perrin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On 22 Apr 2002, Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney wrote: > On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 23:39, Andrew Perrin (CLists) wrote: > > The problem is this: I'm lazy. I'd like to have a menu option, when logged > > in as aperrin, to open a window for clists' mail. I'm perfectly happy to > > type the password, but would prefer not to have to open an xterm, ssh or > > su, and then type pine manually. > > su -c is your friend, if you happen to be on the same machine as the > account: > rxvt -e su - clists -c pine > > Now, for ssh, things get trickier. Pine wants to control I/O in ways ssh > doesn;t allow for when apssed on the ssh command line. In my experience, > ssh & pine have never played nice with this : > > > rxvt -name clists -title clists -bg lightblue -fg black -e ssh \ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] pine > > So if I were you, I'd script the command - instead of pine, use, say > pine-launcher.sh or something. > > > Can anyone suggest a one-line (e.g., can be put into fvwm2's > > main-menu-pre-hook file) command that will successfully launch another > > user's pine? If a password authentication is necessary, it should be able > > to ask for it. > > Hmm. most of the time I just used ssh for it. Although I've switched to > evolution pretty much full time, which does really nice multi-account > things. > > -- > -------------------------------------------- > -- Kevin "The Alchemist" Sonney -- > -- ICQ: 4855069 AIM: ksonney -- > -------------------------------------------- > 320C 0336 3BC4 13EC 4AEC 6AF2 525F CED7 7BB6 12C9 > > "I will rule you all with an Iron Fist! You! Obey the fist!" - Zim > _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
