Re: {bb} Variable Time Checks...

[Henrik Olsen <henrik@iaeste.dk>]

On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Sean MacGuire wrote:
> The purple situation will be addressed in the next release;
> each test will have an expiration date (like milk), so that
> it'll go purple when that time is expired, (again like milk).
> 
> As for how to change the frequencies of testing... hmmm... a
> good idea.  (Just how to abuse the bb-hosts file to do it :)
Personally I don't think it's a good idea to put the timeout in bb-hosts,
it's likely that the timeout will be specific to the test, not to the host
so trying to specify it in bb-hosts will make that file very confusing.

The suggestion of Robert-Andre to put the timeout in the status message as
STATUS+time_valid, sounds a lot better, and will put the decision where it
belongs, the tester.

-- 
Henrik Olsen,  Dawn Solutions I/S       URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/
A Pentium is a terrible thing to waste, http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm


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