Re: Starting cfexecd from cfagent

[Alexander Mattausch]

Matt Armstrong schrieb:

> I would like to run cfexecd in daemon mode, and I'd like cfagent to
> launch it if it isn't running.  So I throw this in to my cfagent.conf:
>
>    processes:
>        "cfexecd" restart "/var/cfengine/bin/cfexecd"
>
> But cfexecd is also run from cron like this:
>
>    0,30 * * * * root /var/cfengine/bin/cfexecd -F
>
> And it seems that cfagent, when run from cfexecd, can't spawn cfexecd.
> Maybe this is why the tutorial doesn't recommend doing this.
>
> Is there a simple solution to this?  It'd be nice to get cfagent
> launching cfexecd, since the point of cfengine is to avoid the
> portability problems of doing this kind of thing with external
> scripts.
We are using an at-command for this. The at-call ist put into a script 
that is run from cfagent, like this:

   processes:
       "cfexecd" restart "/var/cfengine/inputs/scripts/server-restart.sh 
cfengine"


The script is attached, it restarts a service from /etc/init.d. The 
platform dependence has to be put in this script, the script itself is 
sh-compatible.

Not such an easy solution as you probably wanted, but I hope it helps.

Regards,
Alex

server-restart.sh
Description: Bourne shell script