Re: How to perform long-running task in subagent

2005-12-14 Thread Dave Shield
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 07:48 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a common idiom for doing something that takes a long time in an > agent? Do I need a separate thread for those actions and have the agent > just set a bit the thread can see? I think something alone those lines is going to be

How to perform long-running task in subagent

2005-12-14 Thread cnelson
I seem to recall seeing something like this on the list before but I had trouble picking keywords to search the archive and the hits I did find, didn't answer my question. I want to use SNMP to trigger a long-running process, mostly during testing, not in production. For example, I want to set a