Re: cfengine-die help...

[Predrag Zecevic - Solaris System Administrator]

Hi Christian,

you are missing one '&' in command bellow: shouldn't this look like: ... 
&& echo "cfengine-die" ?
Regards ;-)

Christian Pearce wrote:

>    # Reboot if scheduled automation occurs
>    reboot::
>        '$(nohup) $(shutdown) -y -g 300 -i 6 "SysNav is rebooting the
> server to install patch Cluster(s)." & echo "cfengine-die"'
>            background=true
>            useshell=true
>
> Can someone explain to me the process under which cfengine kills a
> forked script?  This is the last statement I tried.  I call shutdown
> with nohup, but that doesn't seem to keep cfengine from killing it after
> I echo the cfengine die.  Unfortunately if I don't use cfengine-die
> cfengine will not continue executing.
>
> I assume this is the code that does it
>   
>   if (ptr->timeout != 0)
>      {
>      alarm(0);
>      signal(SIGALRM,SIG_DFL);
>      }
>
> alarm(0) sets the seconds for the signal to be generated to zero.
> signal(SIGALRM, SIG_DFL) executes Terminate by default with the SIG_DFL
> handle.  
>
> But shutdown still gets killed off.
>  

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