Re: cfengine-die help...

[Predrag Zecevic - Solaris System Administrator]

Have you tried w/o echo command?
Did you tried to debug it?

Regards ;-)

Christian Pearce wrote:

> I mistakenly put that before.  I want the shutdown to go into the
> background.  If I did && it would wait for shutdown to finish then it
> would echo "cfengine-die".  Which leaves me where I was before.  I think
> the shell command is correct.  I am puzzled as to why shutdown gets
> killed.  hmm maybe nohup doesn't block the SIGALRM.  Only the SIGHUP. 
> Maybe we need to change this behavior in cfengine.  Considering we
> aren't using the alarm timer for anything other than 0.  Which is
> immediate.  This way we could block the hup with a nohup.  Unless I am
> misunderstanding this.
>
> On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 11:03, Predrag Zecevic - Solaris System
> Administrator wrote:
>  
>
> > 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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