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
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
Hello world,
I've got a shell script that in essence does this:
FOREVER:
pre-process stuff
mainapp
post-process stuff
If the mainapp returns too soon, the assumption must be that
there is a configuration problem of some sort. Under those
conditions, I don't want to immediately jump to
