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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script Works But Need It to Exit Upon Closing Program Post 303031645 by RudiC on Sunday 3rd of March 2019 04:04:18 PM
Old 03-03-2019
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One option would be to create a wrapper script that, when launched / clicked,

- puts above loop into background, keeping its PID
- runs chrome in foreground until closed
- (softly) kills the PID.
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HOSTAPD(8)							      hostapd								HOSTAPD(8)

NAME
hostapd - IEEE 802.11 AP, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP/RADIUS Authenticator SYNOPSIS
hostapd [-hdBKtv] [-P <PID file>] <configuration file(s)> DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the hostapd daemon. hostapd is a user space daemon for access point and authentication servers. It implements IEEE 802.11 access point management, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP Authenticators and RADIUS authentication server. The current version supports Linux (Host AP, madwifi, mac80211-based drivers) and FreeBSD (net80211). hostapd is designed to be a "daemon" program that runs in the background and acts as the backend component controlling authentication. hostapd supports separate frontend programs and an example text-based frontend, hostapd_cli, is included with hostapd. OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, run hostapd from the command line. -h Show usage. -d Show more debug messages. -dd Show even more debug messages. -B Run daemon in the background. -P <PID file> Path to PID file. -K Include key data in debug messages. -t Include timestamps in some debug messages. -v Show hostapd version. SEE ALSO
hostapd_cli(1). AUTHOR
hostapd was written by Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>. This manual page was written by Faidon Liambotis <faidon@cube.gr>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). hostapd April 7, 2005 HOSTAPD(8)
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