RE: running nohupped commands

[Wheeler, John]

Sometime you have to ask cfengine to die:

http://www.cfengine.org/docs/cfengine-Reference.html#processes

Although this directive is only present in the process section, it is
valid for shell commands as well. 
I have to use it here:

shellcommands:
    
     '/export/home/mysql/scripts/mysql.server stop;echo cfengine-die'

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Price [mailto:elm@jimini.org] 
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 10:48 AM
To: elm@jimini.org
Cc: help-cfengine@gnu.org
Subject: running nohupped commands

Hi, there

It seems this basic message has already been sent, but it didn't show up

in my mailbox, so here's the rerun.

First, introduction

I'm using debian and cfengine to run a network of weather sensors for 
the Applied Global Systems Lab at UNF.

I've been trying to get cfengine to take over doing a stop-start on some

processes that are running under the nohup command, but so far have been

unsuccessful.
I'm using the "shellcommands" group.  Every attempt has had the result 
that a manual run of cfagent --no-splay never dies until I kill the 
shell commands I have run, and that the commands weren't actually 
working properly, some of them died and nohup.out was not being written
to.
My first attempt was to just run the command, which just failed.
My second attempt was "command owner=0 group=0", since that's what it 
needed (output said it was running as
uid=gid=-1). 
My third attempt was     "command owner=0 group=0 useshell=false 
preview=false inform=false"
My fourth attempt was   "detachtty pipename command"
My fifth    attempt:          "screen -dmS pipename command"


Is there another strategy I can take? 

Thanks

Mark Price



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