Re: calling external shell script without waiting for its end
Marcus Schopen <[email protected]>
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Hi Dianne, Thanks for your time. Am Montag, den 02.01.2017, 15:45 -0500 schrieb Dianne Skoll: > On Mon, 02 Jan 2017 19:26:44 +0100 > Marcus Schopen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > When calling an external bash script in filter_end like > > > system("/usr/local/bin/skript.sh $QueueID > /dev/null &"); > > I hope you trust the contents of $QueueID implicitly... I use the QuarantineSubdir value, not QueueID, sorry for confusion. I played with both of them. > The MIMEDefang working directory gets deleted when the filter finishes. > You most likely also want to be a little more careful with the standard > file descriptors, so: > > system("cd / && /usr/local/bin/skript.sh $QueueID < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 &") Ah, thanks! > but more importantly... ask yourself what you need that for and whether it > would be better to rewrite skript.sh in Perl and integrated it into > your filter directly. Okay, I understand. I found another way to trigger the external script by iwatch just touch'ing a file from within mimedefang to a directory which is watched by iwatch. This is quite fast and keeps the script separate from mimedefang. Ciao! Marcus _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang