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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to know a executable has finished his task Post 302155402 by electroon on Thursday 3rd of January 2008 09:32:59 PM
Old 01-03-2008
How to know a executable has finished his task

Hi frnds,

I want to know is there a way by which we can know that a C++ executable has finished its job in shell script.

My task is as follows:

1.Shell script calls a executable

2.Executable executes and performs its job of generating some reports.

Now i want my shell script to detect this that is C++ executable has completed its job so that shell script can send the reports as attachement.

Please help me urgently on this
 

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ABRT-RETRACE-CLIEN(1)						    ABRT Manual 					     ABRT-RETRACE-CLIEN(1)

NAME
abrt-retrace-client - Handles the communication with Retrace server. SYNOPSIS
abrt-retrace-client <operation> [options] DESCRIPTION
This tool is able to communicate with Retrace server: create a new task, ask about task's status, download log or backtrace of a finished task. Integration with libreport events abrt-retrace-client can be used as an analyzer for application crashes which dump core. Example usage in report_event.conf: EVENT=analyze analyzer=CCpp abrt-retrace-client OPERATIONS
create Creates a new task. Prints task ID and password to stdout. Either -d or -c is required. status Prints task's status to stdout. Both -t and -p are required. log Prints finished task's log to stdout. Both -t and -p are required. backtrace Print finished task's backtrace to stdout. Both -t and -p are required. batch Runs all operations in one step: creates a new task, periodically asks for status (the period is specified by --status-delay option) and downloads the result when finished. If the task was successful backtrace file is saved, otherwise log is printed to stdout. Either -c or -d is required. OPTIONS
-v, --verbose be verbose -s, --syslog log to syslog -k, --insecure allow insecure connection to retrace server --url URL retrace server URL --headers (debug) show received HTTP headers -d, --dir DIR read data from ABRT problem directory -c, --core COREDUMP read data from coredump -l, --status-delay delay for polling operations (seconds) --no-unlink (debug) do not delete temporary archive created in /tmp -t, --task ID ID of the task on server -p, --password PWD password of the task on server AUTHORS
o ABRT team abrt 2.1.11 06/18/2014 ABRT-RETRACE-CLIEN(1)
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