Hi! mark,   
      
   On 29/11/2014 2:11 AM, you wrote:   
      
    ml> On Sat, 29 Nov 2014, Björn Felten wrote to Paul Quinn:   
      
    BF>>    Indeed. But on the other hand, us batch file phantoms can   
    BF>> probably do with just one semaphore file exit, can't we? With an   
    BF>> 'EXEC_NOW.OK' flag file that causes Argus to execute 'EXEC_NOW.BAT'   
    BF>> (as I've made it now) wouldn't that actually be enough?   
      
    ml> but the mailer is not exiting, is it?? the capability is easily handled   
    ml> by the even scheduler as paul showed previously... or am i missing   
    ml> something besides a decent beverage again??   
      
   That's the thing: it's not something based on an event but simply the   
   appearance of the flag from an external source (JamNNTPd in this case, for   
   whenever there's mail to scan out).  Argus cannot do this itself with the   
   supplied flag-file (aka semaphore) responses.  So, Björn is adding on this   
   function in his revised version of Argus.   
      
   Note to self.  Paul got confused, and thought that EXEC_NOW.[OK/BAT] could   
   serve as a standard naming convention that could be used by several functions,   
   for different reasons.  He did think that the BAT could be pre-loaded with   
   some task's script and then called using the flag.  Paul had forgotten that   
   Argus works in a multi-tasking environment, and that there could come an   
   instant where several tools/events might want to use the EXEC_NOW.[OK/BAT]   
   simultaneously. Silly boy, he is.[sfx; smack! to the forehead]   
      
   Cheers,   
   Paul.   
      
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