Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!AUREL.CNS.CALTECH.EDU!bfox From: bfox@AUREL.CNS.CALTECH.EDU (Brian Fox) Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: background jobs in 1.04 Message-ID: <8911272120.AA14313@aurel.cns.caltech.edu.> Date: 27 Nov 89 21:20:06 GMT References: <278200005@sts> Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: sts!sts!roy@bfox@aurel.cns.caltech.edu.date.27.nov.89.18.03.40.gmt.from.claris Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 15 I did have the 'notify' variable of Bash set exactly as specified (notify=). It still only notify'ed me of job comletion on execution of an external command. Roy roy@sts.COM Are you saying that you have different results than: bfox@playdoh$ sleep 2 & [1] 3854 bfox@playdoh$ [1]+ Done sleep 20 Brian