[mrtg-developers] Re: Timeout on external scripts

[Andreas Plesner Jacobsen]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 02:18:23AM +0200, Lars Rune Bjørnevik wrote:
> 
> Do you know a way to add a timeout in the 
> "sub getexternal" routine in ber.pm (in line 1637?):

You could do magic with a SIGALRM handler and alarm(), try
perldoc -f alarm.

An easier approach might be that you just troubleshoot your external
scripts and make sure that they add a timer to their I/O operations.

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Andreas Plesner Jacobsen | if it GLISTENS, gobble it!!

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