[hobbit] Ext script help needed.

On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:02:52AM +0200, Thomas wrote:

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.

Use "ncftpls" from the ncftp toolkit. "ncftpls -t 10 ftp://ftp.foo.com/" will timeout after 10 seconds.

Henrik