Re: [Simple-evcorr-users] Scheduling context creation?

2009-12-09 Thread Risto Vaarandi
;); tevent %{deltatime} \ > MAINT_CONTEXT_FOR_$2 > > If you use a time_t for your starting time, then mydeltatime is: > >return ($1 - time) ...and if you are on Linux or have the GNU date utility installed, then you can use /bin/date the as a core part of the parsin

Re: [Simple-evcorr-users] Scheduling context creation?

2009-12-09 Thread John P. Rouillard
In message <4b1fbe1f.3070...@umn.edu>, Tim Peiffer writes: >Risto Vaarandi wrote: >> First, there is a way to implement at-like functionality dynamically >> in SEC through the 'tevent' action (it's the most recently added >> action that appeared in version 2.4.2). >> The 'tevent' action generate

Re: [Simple-evcorr-users] Scheduling context creation?

2009-12-09 Thread Tim Peiffer
I think you have addressed part of what I am asking. Using you as a sounding board - So if I read a ticket and create a log event "myhost.mydomain Maintenance window scheduled 200912090800 for 3600 seconds", would I need to parse the start time, and compare to , and use that delta in the teven

Re: [Simple-evcorr-users] Scheduling context creation?

2009-12-09 Thread Risto Vaarandi
On 12/09/2009 04:25 PM, Risto Vaarandi wrote: > ... > action-on-expire list. In that case you only have one rule, and if you > are afraid of losing state between restarts, SEC can be easily > configured to store/reload its contexts to/from disk at shutdown/restart > (see a 5 year old post from the

Re: [Simple-evcorr-users] Scheduling context creation?

2009-12-09 Thread Risto Vaarandi
Tim, you could tackle the problem in several ways. First, there is a way to implement at-like functionality dynamically in SEC through the 'tevent' action (it's the most recently added action that appeared in version 2.4.2). The 'tevent' action generates a synthetic event after given amount of