#!/usr/bin/lua -- -- send now and next cart# and length to nopsyncd -- this script should be called by the now/next macro cart -- the arguments should be: now# nowlen next# nextlen -- local queue_name = "/rhnop" mq = require "luamq" -- reading timestamp (milliseconds since epoch) local p = assert(io.popen("/bin/date --utc '+%s %N'" , 'r')) local time = assert(p:read('*l')) p:close() local s, ns = assert(string.match(time, "([0-9]+) ([0-9]+)")) local timestamp = s*1000 + math.floor(ns/1000000) -- check arguments if #arg < 4 then io.stderr:write("too few parameters\n") os.exit(1) end -- open message queue local q, err = mq.create(queue_name, "wo") if q == nil then io.stderr:write("creation of message queue failed: " .. err .. "\n") os.exit(1) end -- send out message to nopsyncd local result, err = mq.send(q, timestamp .. " " .. arg[1] .. " " .. arg[2] .. " " .. arg[3] .. " " .. arg[4], 0) if result == nil then io.stderr:write("sending message failed: " .. err .. "\n") os.exit(2) end mq.close(q)