"Minesh Patel" <min...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.1408.1255583431.2807.python-l...@python.org... > > >> Any ideas? comments on code welcome also. > > Here's something that I would probably do, there may be better ways. > This only works on python2.6 for the terminate() method. > > > import signal > import subprocess > > def timeout_handler(signum, frame): > print "About to kill process" > p.terminate() > > for machine_name in self.alive: > cmd = ["/bin/remsh", machine_name, 'ps -flu %s' % uid] > signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, timeout_handler) > signal.alarm(1) > p = subprocess.Popen(cmd,stdout=subprocess.PIPE) > (stdout, stderr) = p.communicate() > signal.alarm(0) > if stdout: > print stdout > elif stderr: > print stderr > > > > -- > Thanks, > --Minesh
Hi Minesh, Looks like I need to learn about signals--that code looks nice. I'm using python2.6. thanks, --Tim Arnold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
