Re: cfagent from cron

[Mark . Burgess]

It sounds like something is wrong yes, but it might be due to a
seg fault in the version you have. Make sure, whe you upgrade,
to upgrade all the parts not just cfagent -- I now that I
sometimes forget this myself.

M

On  8 Aug, ABostick@mydoconline.com wrote:
> I would like to report seg faults but I cannot always reproduce the error to
> get a backtrace.  Basically, due to some misconfiguration of my own, I
> killed virtually every cfexecd daemon on 30+ hosts.  I had some recursive
> copies set up and then added my masterfiles dir to CVS and did not ignore
> the CVS dirs.  CVS files were copied everywhere and that, for some reason,
> probably logrotate choking, killed cfexecd as well.
> 
> Anyway, 2.0.4pre seems much more stable than 2.0.1, 2.0.2, or 2.0.3.
> However, I am still seeing locks that do not expire...  So as soon as I can
> trust cron, I will try the cfexecd -F option to see if that is any better
> for me.
> 
> I have some busy work to do to get cron ready but I will relate my cron
> experience as soon as I can.
> 
> What bothers me at this point is that from daemon mode, because of the
> locking, I do not know if everything is running as it should.  When I go to
> a host and run cfagent -q -v , I see everything run and crazy lock expire
> timers on some things e.g. (1623/120) minutes and crazy stuff like that.  I
> have seen locks expire after 30 days before...
> 
> I know I have asked this before but this isn't normal right?
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> Aaron Bostick
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no [mailto:Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no]
> Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 3:14 PM
> To: Bostick, Aaron PH/US
> Cc: bianco@jlab.org; help-cfengine@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: cfagent from cron
> 
> 
> 
> Please don't ignore segfaults, report them. With gdb backtraces, preferably.
> If you are using the latest, there should not be any segfaults. There
> was a minor bug in 2.0.2 I think... but it's fixed now.
> 
> M
> 
> On  8 Aug, ABostick@mydoconline.com wrote:
>> I have had problems with running cfexecd as a daemon, in that it seg
> faults
>> at times and appears to have locking issues (processes never expire!)
>> running this way.  But when I run cfagent -q -v from a host itself, it
>> always works great. 
>> 
>> Seems to me in my case ( maybe I'm doing something wrong) that running
>> cfagent from cron would be much more reliable though I haven't tested
> this.
>> 
>> I just need to get Openssh with BSM audit support installed do I can test
>> the cron theory!
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Aaron
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David J. Bianco [mailto:bianco@jlab.org]
>> Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 2:16 PM
>> To: Bostick, Aaron PH/US
>> Cc: help-cfengine@gnu.org
>> Subject: Re: cfagent from cron
>> 
>> 
>> 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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