Subj : Re: MPL Coding - firing a bash script??
To   : deon
From : paulie420
Date : Sun Dec 01 2024 02:11 pm

 de> You might get a better answer, but one option might be to get your MPL to
 de> create a semaphore - and then have a cron job run every minute looking
 de> for it, and when it sees it, does what it needs to do.
 de> 
 de> I think there might even be a filewatcher daemon of sorts (never used one
 de> myself), that comes to life instantly it sees the semaphore - which
 de> might be better if waiting up to 60s is not what you want...

Thats a nice idea; I quite like it. Prior to this I was just running a cronjob once a day to update links that I have archived - but I wanted the project to start importing URLs immediately. I got it all ironed out, I ended up using a Mystic DD command, ssh and nohup;

ssh user@x.x.x.x "nohup bash /home/user/some/script.sh > /dev/null 2>&1 &"

When I just tacked an "&" on the end of an ssh command, the ssh instance would remain on the BBS system just sitting there - doing it this way uses ssh to run the script on a remote server, then it runs and finished on that remote but ssh drops on the BBS side immediately. 

Viola - works for this instance pretty well.

Had to make sure the remote scripts had all variables and pwd's set correctly, as some of the shortening stuff I was using didn't have the infoz it needed. Thanks for the ideas gamgee & deon!



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