passing terminal commands

joey · 03-21-2002, 03:41 AM

im trying to start a terminal from the gnome pannel that automaticly logs me into a database. i have tried the command

gnome-terminal --command "DB connection string"

which starts the terminal and logs into the database but as soon as the command has completed the window exits.

How can i stop this ?

Mara · 03-21-2002, 03:51 AM

Of course! Just first run a terminal/console without command (One of the programs in Terminal section) and you can type your commands.

joey · 03-21-2002, 04:03 AM

what im trying to do is have a terminal that i only use for database admin. it would just be handy if i could load the terminal and it already be connected to the database i want to work with.

e.g. have three terminal icons on my panel each of which will connect to a different database when they are loaded

Sixpax · 03-21-2002, 11:24 AM

This is strange, because I would think the terminal wouldn't die until the program quit (i.e. you logged out of the DB). If I run something like "gnome-terminal --command rlogin anotherhost", my terminal stays alive until I exit from the other host.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure you can do this with xterm instead...sorry I can't help anymore with gnome-terminal:

xterm -hold -e "DB connection string"