Re: Actions and Filters

[Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon at redhat dot com>]

The big action I'd like to see (we've talked about this on irc) is to 
run an external executable on observer fire.

This requires thought on:

1) any security issues?
2) executable environment issues? (Or should we, like gnome-panel's just 
"run" the executable)?

The other thing we need to think about with custom actions, it how to 
throttle the action to X per Y over time (once per hour for example, 
lest we page a sysadmin a thousand times in 10 minutes ;)

Regards

Phil

Mike Cvet wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I've been working Frysk's Actions and Filters packages for the past
> couple days. So far, this has resulted in the ability to raise multiple
> Memory and Register windows independently of the SourceWindow via any
> number of event Filters (new and old) available in custom observers.
>
> To summarize; the available Filters are...
> Filter by (for both Tasks and Processes, fork()ers and fork()ed):
>
> Name
> Name of parent
> Command-line options
> Executable path
> Exit value
>
> Resulting in Actions:
>
> Log custom event
> Show source code
> Add observer
> Print current state
> Show register values
> Show memory space values
>
> Currently I am working on allowing the user to execute an external
> script or binary as a further Action.
>
> If anyone has any suggestions for more Filters or Actions, please let me
> know.
>
> Mike
>
>
>