<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> On 06/17/2009 06:06 PM, Matthias Urlichs wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:20090617220618.GW9865@kiste.smurf.noris.de" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi, Casey Dahlin: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">The way its worded in my example the check would happen 1 minute after startup, and never again. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Alternately you could trigger it on "system_normal is in state 'stopped' for more than 1 minute" (which can't be specified yet IIRC, but that should be fixable), on the theory that a reboot or restart shouldn't take that long (you don't want a barrage of state emails every time you restart things when upgrading, for instance). </pre> </blockquote> True. There's a lot of sophistication that could be added. Its something to look into as the system takes shape. <blockquote cite="mid:20090617220618.GW9865@kiste.smurf.noris.de" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""></pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">An alternative would be a "settled" event, which would occur every time the state machine stops transitioning for a moment. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> "Send an event when there are no events" sounds like an internal inconsistency waiting to happen. :-/ </pre> </blockquote> There's lots of right ways to do it. It depends on how we implement certain things though. --CJD </body> </html>