Why do you need to pause an operation? When doing pause on the server, the current thread are busy doing the pause. And with 5 threads and 5 users doing a pause you got into troubles.
-- Jarl On 8/9/07, Dwayne Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > (ARS 7.01 patch 2, Linux server, Oracle 10.2 db) > > How do you insert a pause in an active link or a filter? > > I have heard that you should run a process then call that process. So I have > a "pause" program on our server that says "sleep $1". On the server if I > enter "/opt/remedy/HelpDesk/pause 10" it waits ten seconds then returns the > cursor. > > So I set up both an active link and a filter to do the "pause 10" command > then send a message. > The active link does a "Run Process" of "@@:/opt/remedy/HelpDesk/pause 10". > The filter is the same but without the "@@:". In both cases I get the > message right away. > > The active link log shows: > <ACTL> Process: /opt/remedy/HelpDesk/pause 10 > <ACTL> Success > > The filter has a "`!" after it to make it run in phase 1, and the filter log > shows it running before the message, but the message still appears right away. > > What am I doing wrong? > > Is there a better way of solving this altogether? It seems like pausing is > such a normal thing to do that there should be a built-in Remedy function. > > Dwayne Martin > Computing Support > James Madison University > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the > Answers Are" > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
