Re: Break into a timeout loop
Re: Break into a timeout loop
- Subject: Re: Break into a timeout loop
- From: Matthew Smith <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 09:33:42 +1100
on 29/01/2002 03:46, Timothy K. Wilkinson at email@hidden wrote:
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Is there a way to break into a timeout loop with another script? I have a
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script that puts up a login dialog. We use this just to capture usage
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stats. It has timeout of something like three weeks. It works great but
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occasionally I would like to run other scripts (reset printers, clear
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caches, etc.). Is there any way to have another script break in, quit the
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login script, do its thing and then start the login script up again? As
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soon as I run the login script I seem to be locked out.
Why not make the other scripts part of the login process. The results of the
examples you gave won't been required until login occurs. You could use some
method to determine when it should occur at next login, maybe the existence
of the script in a folder on a shared volume.
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Matthew Smith