From: Michael Linfield <globyy3000@...>
Date: 2009-03-15T07:33:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Daemons and Paths

Michael Linfield wrote:
> I don't know if this is exactly what your looking for, but how about a 
> call to locate?
> 
> begin
> #worker code here
> 
> rescue
> path = %x[locate <filename>].chomp! 

> #the filename would be whatever the daemon is
> #looking for - you take the error code from
> #the daemon and pull the filename out of it
> 
> #Here we are going to take the path output
> #then remove the last array element it's
> #split by, aka the filename, so that u will
> #have the directory
> 
> directory = path.split("/")
> directory.pop
> directory.join("/")
> Dir.chdir(directory)
> 
> retry #retries the begin block
> 
> end

My apologies, correct the line that says directory.join("/") to the 
following:

directory = directory.join("/")

Regards,

- Mac
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