generic command wrapper?

[Ben]

I'd rather have locking and just allow for long execution times, 
because that just seems like it might allow for less configuration 
locations.

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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