generic command wrapper?
Andreas Ericsson
ae at op5.se
Thu Jan 6 16:23:59 CET 2005
Ben wrote:
> I'd rather have locking and just allow for long execution times, because
> that just seems like it might allow for less configuration locations.
>
You are ofcourse aware of the possibility that you in that case can
create so many processes that your system crashes?
> On Jan 6, 2005, at 5:55 AM, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>
>> Ben wrote:
>>
>>> I need to run a proprietary vendor tool to make a service check, but
>>> unfortunately this tool is pretty awful and cannot be run more than once
>>> at a time. Is there any generic tool out there that somebody has written
>>> which would let me wrap a file lock and some timeout protection
>>> around a generic shell command?
>>
>>
>> You don't need locking so much as a spooler. Be warned though that
>> spooling management commands is considered terribly poor practice, and
>> you would need to passively submit the results, since the spooler
>> can't possibly return the proper status immediately.
>>
>> --
>> Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson at op5.se
>> OP5 AB www.op5.se
>> Lead Developer
>
>
>
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Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB www.op5.se
Lead Developer
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