Re: shell commands and triggers?

On Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:00:45 -0500, Peter Chan <chanp_at_nortel.ca> wrote: No,

you can't do this. the only way would be crating a demon that listen to an oracle pipe and implementing a trigger that sends some messages into to the pipe. The listener could then perform any task according to the semantic of the message.

>I was wondering if it is possible to execute shell commands inside of
>triggers.
>
>If so, how can I do this?
>
>I know there is such this as "host( <cmd> )", but that does not seem
>to work at all.
>
>Thanks!
>
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Regards

Matthias Gresz    :-)

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