[Nagiosplug-devel] Timeouts in BASH Plugins

[Richard Edward Horner]

Thanks for the tip, Thomas. I'll check it out.

Rich(ard)

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Thomas Guyot-Sionnest <thomas at zango.com> wrote:
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> Richard Edward Horner wrote:
>> Babar,
>>
>> Thanks for the response. I wasn't able to make any headway on this.
>> I'll guess I'll just rewrite my checks in Perl.
>
> You could probably use this (I didn't tested), but it may leave stall
> processes behind:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> use strict;
> use warnings;
>
> $SIG{'ALRM'} = sub {
>  print "CRITICAL: foo\n";
>  exit 2;
> };
>
> alarm(60);
> my $text = `/bin/bash /path/to/plugin.sh`;
> my $result = $?>>8;
> alarm(0);
>
> print $text;
> return $result;
> __END__
>
> If you need to kill stale processes, it's a bit more complicated - look
> at my check_rsync v1.02 plugin for an example.
>
> http://www.nagiosexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed%2F2094.html;d=1
>
> - --
> Thomas
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