Re: Complications with CFExecd as a child of init

[Mark . Burgess]

"Redundancy is our last avenue of survival".

In the docs I recommend running both cfexecd and cron to run cfexecd -F.
There is no harm in running both and that way they police one another.

M

On 20 Nov, Russell Adams wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 07:22:33PM -0600, Wheeler, John wrote:
>> I run cfexecd out of init as well. I was pretty displeased with how this
>> performed overall. I found that if a cfagent hung, or took to long for
>> some reason, that it would block another cfagent process from spawning
>> on its defined schedule. This gave me numerous headaches as I convinced
>> many here that cfengine could be a replacement for cron. 
> 
> Urg. I'm having similar experiences. See my previous post on the
> signal issues....
> 
> The deal is, I've been looking at tools to use on my servers to ensure
> that processes stay running, ie: daemon-tools, Monit, and certain init
> replacements. I was hoping cfengine could do it in addition to the
> management.
> 
>> 
>> Now I run two cfexecd on a given host. One from init that does nothing
>> but verify cron is running, and the other from cron. 
> 
> That might work, but still ought to have issues on upgrading. But then
> its just like using another monitoring program to monitor cfengine.
> 
> Really, you ought to just run cron from init on a separate runlevel
> like I was describing. ;]
> 
>> 
>> I don't like this solution, but I didn't have a better solution for
>> solving both time critical jobs, as well as availability of the
>> configuration agent.
>> 
>> I think I tried to have a cfagent task kill the cfexecd process to
>> restart it. If I remember correctly this was pretty nasty. Since cfexecd
>> is the parent and cfagent doesn't disconnect/detach from the parent it
>> would kill itself. Kinda like doing kill -9 $$.
> 
> Thats was I was afraid of. Thanks for saving me the time repeating the
> experiment.
> 
> It'd be great if cfexecd would allow a parameter to force it to kill
> itself after x minutes. That and check for new config files on each run.
> 
> Any further ideas would be appreciated.
> 
> Russell
> 
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