Hi! mark,

On 29/11/2014 2:11 AM, you wrote:

 ml> On Sat, 29 Nov 2014, Björn Felten wrote to Paul Quinn:

 BF>>    Indeed. But on the other hand, us batch file phantoms can
 BF>> probably do with just one semaphore file exit, can't we? With an
 BF>> 'EXEC_NOW.OK' flag file that causes Argus to execute 'EXEC_NOW.BAT'
 BF>> (as I've made it now) wouldn't that actually be enough?

 ml> but the mailer is not exiting, is it?? the capability is easily handled
 ml> by the even scheduler as paul showed previously... or am i missing
 ml> something besides a decent beverage again??

That's the thing: it's not something based on an event but simply the
appearance of the flag from an external source (JamNNTPd in this case, for
whenever there's mail to scan out).  Argus cannot do this itself with the
supplied flag-file (aka semaphore) responses.  So, Björn is adding on this
function in his revised version of Argus.

Note to self.  Paul got confused, and thought that EXEC_NOW.[OK/BAT] could
serve as a standard naming convention that could be used by several functions,
for different reasons.  He did think that the BAT could be pre-loaded with
some task's script and then called using the flag.  Paul had forgotten that
Argus works in a multi-tasking environment, and that there could come an
instant where several tools/events might want to use the EXEC_NOW.[OK/BAT]
simultaneously. Silly boy, he is.[sfx; smack! to the forehead]

Cheers,
Paul.

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