On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 20:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This will work, but wont solve the problem of the alarm exiting the loop > before the file has been totaly proccessed. >
Seems to me that it is exactly what is wanted > On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Ramprasad wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I'm kind of new to Perl, so please forgive the question.. > > > > > > I'm trying to use perl to read a file and then run a program using the > > > file. I also want to use the alarm(x) function to skip to the next entry > > > in the files if it times out. Here's what Ive go so far: > > > > > > open (TESTFILE, "< regression") || die "Can't open: regression_dgd\n"; > > > open (LOGFILE, "> regression.log") || die "Can't open: regression.log\n"; > > > print LOGFILE "\n\n\nStart of test run - $today1 $run\n"; > > > while ($line = <TESTFILE>) > > > { > > > alarm(62); > > > print "Working...\n"; > > > $start=time; > > > chomp($line); > > > $cmd = "/node.ulm_bx"; > > > $full_line = join("",$line,$cmd); > > > $jobrun = `$run $full_line`; > > > print LOGFILE "$jobrun"; > > > $end = time; > > > $totaltime = $end - $start; > > > print LOGFILE "Time for test:$totaltime sec's\n\n\n"; > > > } > > > close (TESTFILE); > > > close (LOGFILE); > > > > > > It works fine, but when the alarm time gets exceeded, the script exits. > > > What I would like it to do is just go to the next line in the TESTFILE. > > > > > > Thanks for any input you can give me.. > > > > > > Denis > > > > > > > Why dont you just reset the alarm after every run > > eg > > > > $jobrun = `$run $full_line`; > > alarm(0); # This will reset the alarm > > print LOGFILE "$jobrun"; > > > > I dont know if this work, because anyway you were resetting the alarm > > in the next loop > > > > Ram > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- NETCORE SOLUTIONS *** Ph: +91 22 5662 8000 Fax: +91 22 5662 8134 MailServ: Email, IM, Proxy, Firewall, Anti-Virus, LDAP Fleximail: Mail Storage, Management and Relaying http://netcore.co.in Emergic Freedom: Linux-based Thin Client-Thick Server Computing http://www.emergic.com BlogStreet: Top Blogs, Neighborhoods, Search and Utilities http://www.blogstreet.com Rajesh Jain's Weblog on Technology: http://www.emergic.org ----------------------------------------------------------------