generic command wrapper?

[Andreas Ericsson]

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
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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