Re: Automatic polling by tin

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 12:57:20AM +0100, Adam Wysocki wrote:
> > [tin(1)]
> > |       Interval in seconds to reread active (reread_active_file_secs)
> > |           The  news ${TIN_LIBDIR-NEWSLIBDIR}"/"${TIN_ACTIVEFILE-active} file
> > |           is reread at regular intervals to show if any new news has arrived.
> > |           Default is 1200. Setting this to 0 will disable this feature.
> > 
> > note that til will 'delay' the reread till it sees a user action
> > after the timer, e.g. a keypress.
> Thanks for your reply. I know about this feature and noticed it in 
> action (didn't change the default value). The problem is in delay. 

there is no way (except by modifing the source) to get rid of the
user action which is required to actually trigger the reread. 

> If it would be possible to omit this delay, I could set monitoring 
> for window with tin in my windowmanager (screen) and see, talking 
> in other window on ekg (instant messenger, popular in my country) 
> if any new news has arrived.

you could do something like 'tin -vZ' via cron and monitor it's
output (but I wouldn't do that).

urs
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