Re: sleeping for 30 seconds

2004-03-26 Thread Jan Grant
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Richard P. Williamson wrote: What's a good sh algorithm for the above? (assume 10 seconds indicates error condition and a 50 second sleep between iterations when necessary, and I don't need a 'five attempts then sleep' thing). Also, assume I've simplified for the home

Re: sleeping for 30 seconds

2004-03-26 Thread Richard P. Williamson
At 13:08 26/03/2004, Jan Grant wrote: On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Richard P. Williamson wrote: You might, if the possibility is there, want to use the exit value of the main process to indicate errors, which is perhaps a little more reliable. Except it doesn't tell me how long it ran for before it