Re: processes and exclude patterns

[Mark . Burgess]

The problem is actually that cfexecd has locking to avoid runaway
instantiations, and thus when cfexecd runs cfagent, cfexecd cannot be
started because it is already running.

I thinka simple fix can be made. I'll get back to you soon.

M


On  5 Mar, Jeff Sheltren wrote:
> Hi Khalid, someone else had this same problem recently - I'll paste
> their solution:
> 
>>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
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> -Jeff
> 
> On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 09:40, khalid.sattar@globalgraphics.com wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> I run cfexecd as a daemon scheduled between 30-35 mins every hour, but I also
>> run cfexecd -F from cron.  I have the following defined in my master
>> cfagent.conf file
>> 
>> 
>> processes:
>>      "$(CfBinDir)/cfexecd" restart "$(CfBinDir)/cfexecd"
>> 
>> But I found that this would not restart the daemon if it had died.  Then I
>> realised this is because once the daemon dies, then cfagent only gets called
>> from cron (via cfexecd -F) and at that point the process list matches cfexecd
>> -F.  So I have been trying various incarnation of fixes without success.  The
>> one that seems obvious is
>> 
>>      "$(CfBinDir)/cfexecd" exclude="cfexecd.*-F" restart 
>> "$(CfBinDir)/cfexecd"
>> 
>> But this does not work.  can someone point out where I am going wrong?
>> 
>> Also how do I get more debugging info here?, As I invoke it via cfexecd, then
>> putting -v against the latter does not run cfagent in -v.  So I cant see why 
>> the
>> exclude pattern is not matching.
>> 
>> I am running cfengine 2.0.2 on Solaris 8.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> ---
>> Khalid Sattar
>> Systems Administrator
>> Global Graphics
>> 
>> 
>> 
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