Regardless, try running the script using .xinitrc while true; do perl /home/niels/.wmii-3.5/mail; sleep 300;done & (alter the path to the script if necessary) and use status() to print the file's contents to the statusbar, see if it works
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Alex Kilgore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have no refresh action here, there is rehash which does something > unrelated I think, but thats all i see > Action rehash > proglist $PATH >$progsfile > which looks like it checks to see if the proglist is up to date > > > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Alex Kilgore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Alex Kilgore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Niels Rasmussen < > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Alex Kilgore skrev: > > > > > the ls -Al thing was to correct the message count which was being > > > > returned > > > > > improperly > > > > > > > > But this doesn't point to my maildir ?? > > > > > > > youre right, it was supposed to be > > > > > > $mail = `ls -Al /home/niels/Mail/INBOX | wc -l`; > > > $mail--; > > > > > > > > > I meant > > $mail = `ls -Al /home/niels/Mail/INBOX/new | wc -l`; > > $mail--; > > > > >
