generic command wrapper?

[jeff vier]

On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 18:55 -0600, 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?

If I were you, I'd try to figure out what it's doing (tcpdump?  trace?
truss?) and re-write it properly.

Then sell it back to them :)



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