Re: How to monitor for a curl error

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Any particular reason for using curl rather that (say) HTTPAPI ?


Jon Paris


> On Sep 8, 2021, at 3:55 AM, Don Brown via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi All
>
> I am out of my depth with this curl stuff and hoping someone can advise.
>
> I have been searching for curl information - maybe I should be searching 
> for qsh ?
>
> I am using curl to write to a GreyLog syslog server.
>
> I am using qcmdexc to run the qsh command that uses curl to post to the 
> syslog server.
>
> This works but I have found if there are many messages to be written I can 
> get an error 
> curl: (7) Failed to connect ... connection refused
>
> This message appears in the joblog
>
> My call looks like this;
>
> callp(e) QCmdExc(Cmd:CmdLen); 
> if %error(); 
>
> I do get an error but how do I retrieve the actual error that is being 
> sent to the job log (or the qsh session if run interactively) ?
>
> I think the server is just having a hard time keeping up so if I get this 
> error I was going to retry sending the post or perhaps put a short sleep 
> to handle this issue.
>
> Appreciate any suggestions
>
> Thank you 
>
> Don
>
>
>
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