-server and -client stall (stop responding/returning) if external command stalls

[yarikoptic]

Original report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=410077

if external command (like mail) doesn't return but stalls, -server
would stall as well and would stop responding to -client requests like
status or stop, which makes it necessary to manually kill that command
and/or fail2ban.

[kwirk]

Now that python2.3 is no longer supported, it should be quite easy to replace the os.system calls with python's subprocess1 module. Can then use poll2 method to check if the command has exited, and timeout after a set/configurable period.

[yarikoptic]

Good idea
Although I would prefer to introduce this to 0.9 first

Steven Hiscocks notifications@github.com wrote:

Now that python2.3 is no longer supported, it should be quite easy to
replace the os.system calls with python's subprocess1 module. Can
then use poll2 method to check if the command has exited, and
timeout after a set/configurable period.

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[yarikoptic]

Closed by PR #190, thanks to @kwirk's work