Re: Starting cfexecd from cfagent

[Matt Armstrong]

Andrew Stribblehill <a.d.stribblehill@durham.ac.uk> writes:

> Quoting Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com> (2003-02-21 03:56:13 GMT):
>> 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"

[...]

>> And it seems that cfagent, when run from cfexecd, can't spawn cfexecd.
>> Maybe this is why the tutorial doesn't recommend doing this.
>
> Well, it *can* but it doesn't because there's already one running :)
>
>> 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.
>
> <hack type="ugly">
> Make a symlink: (cd /var/cfengine/bin && ln -s cfexecd Cfexecd)
> Edit your crontab to call Cfexecd rather than cfexecd
> </hack>

I ended up with this:

    processes:
        "cfexecd$" restart "/var/cfengine/bin/cfexecd"

I didn't know the "cfexecd$" could be a regexp.  The $ prevents the
"cfexecd -F" from matching.  I expected this to work too, but it
didn't seem to:

    processes:
        "cfexecd" exclude="-F" restart "/var/cfengine/bin/cfexecd"

-- 
matt