Check timeout value question

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This maybe help:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/shell-scripting-run-command-under-alarmclock/

On 11/30/2010 10:42 PM, steve f wrote:
> I am running a homemade check to check about 8 core processes. 
> Occasionally the check times out after 10 seconds.
>
> All this check does is run /etc/init.d/xxxx status and use either the
> 0 or 1 exit code to report that the process is OK or Critical.
>
> I verified in my nagios.cfg file the timeoout setting is set to 60
> secs and the utils.pm variable for timeout is set to 15 seconds.
>
> I have no timeout setting in this script but figured I need one. 
> Where is the check getting the 10 sec value from?  I assume its a
> default for a nagios check.
>
> If I rewrite the script in perl ( its a simple bash now) and use the
> utils.pm, does that automatically give me the -t option where I could
> set any timeout value or will it only set the timeout to 15 seconds as
> in the utils.pm?
>
> Is there a simple way to add a timeout for this check only ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>
>
>
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