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Old 10-23-2002
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daemon process gives real time

It seems that you would be better served to create a daemon to control this process.

You could tailor it to notify you when the string you want appears and email or beep you. You should have a template of one on your system or you can copy from a simple one in a directory similar to /sbin/init.d/template.

cp template myscript

You will need to add a kill and start link in your rc directories for it to startup a boot time.

ln -s myscript /sbin/rc3.d/S400myscript
ln -s myscript /sbin/rc1.d/K400myscript


Hope this helps!