Re: cfagent from cron

[David J. Bianco]

On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 15:05, ABostick@mydoconline.com wrote:
> Is there a benefit from running "cfexecd -F" from cron instead of just
> "cfagent" from cron?  Why the extra step?
> 

The emails generated from cfexecd -F are usually a little nicer,
even if just because they're easier to filter into folders because
they have standard subject lines.

Actually, I'd go one step further.  Instead of running cfexecd -F 
from cron, I run a short script that starts up cfexecd (without -F)
if it's not already running. I also start cfexecd at boot.  The
advantage of this is simple.  Since cfexecd and cron are separate
and don't rely on each other to run, if one goes down the other can
restart it.  My cfagent config restarts cron if it's not running
(which has happened occasionally) and cron restarts cfexecd if it
doesn't find it running.  A win-win situation.

        David

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