Ext script help needed.

[Thomas <tlp-hobbit (at) holme-pedersen.dk>]

Hi All,

Please help me with this little problem I have, as it is bothring be a lot.

I have writte an ext script which logs into a FTP server does a dir 
command and then excits. All FTP commands are specified in a input file 
and the output is saved in a temp file used for the status message to 
Hobbit.

Henrik kindly advised me to use a bbhostgrep to search the FTP server 
details from the bb-hosts file and this works as expected. In order to 
speed up the testing I have created a "subscript" which I call with som 
paramaters from the "master script" and this way have some parrallel run 
of the test. Its like this:

$BBHOME/ext/ftp-test.sh $HOST $USER $PASSWD &

This also works fine.

The problem starts when a FTP connection fails or is slow. Then my 
subscript is not terminated and the master script hangs. This in turn 
leads to purple alarms for all hosts. I have tried to implement in my 
master script a check using ps for a previously running subscribt for 
the individual hosts, but this is not work as expected.

So my question is how can I have my "sub script" really fork from the 
master script ? I do not need it to return to the master script because 
the subscript sends the status to Hobbit.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Regards, Thomas