Re: CRON : Can you send values to CRON and get a result ?

From: Martijn Lievaart (m_at_remove.this.part.rtij.nl)
Date: 05/02/05 

Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 20:49:13 +0200

On Mon, 02 May 2005 11:50:51 +0000, c0ldbyte wrote:

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> On 2005-05-02, Martijn Lievaart <m@remove.this.part.rtij.nl> wrote:
>> On Mon, 02 May 2005 00:35:19 +0000, Kenny McCormack wrote:
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>>> I did not indicate any desire to know anything about "Nagios" (whatever
>>> that is...). That is precisely my point.
>>
>> The OP wanted to do a certain task. I told him how I achieve that task.
>> Sometimes the answer to a question is stepping back and choosing a
>> different tool. Besides, I was not talking to you, unless you are the OP
>> and morphed.
>>
>>> I.e., I suppose I could start babbling in Swahili here and if anyone
>>> stated that they had no idea what I was talking about, I could point
>>> them to www.swahili.org (or whatever) or some translation (aka,
>>> babblefish) web site and that would be that, right? (Translation: I
>>> don't think so...)
>>
>> And swahili has to do with the original question exactly what?
>>
>> M4
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> Dont know what this conversation has turned into but hasnt it gone a little
> bit farther than the original post as in the following was the subject.
> Subject: CRON : Can you send values to CRON and get a result ?
> That subject has nothing to do with Nagios so unless there is a valid example
> to what he has asked about then why on earth would you post something about
> something else that has nothing to do with what he has asked ?. Or is it just
> because you like to "commit bike sheds".

>From the original post:
> I need a way to determine if something is overdue based on it's last
> time stamp.

If I offended someone by trying to anser that question, please accept my
apologies.

M4 

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