Re: Lack of output

[Tim Nelson]

> On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 07:13:54AM -0500, Russell Adams wrote:
> > I've got a strange problem occuring.
> >
> > I run 'cfexecd -g' from inittab scheduled to run on the hour, and
> > 'cfexecd -F' in crontab set to run at thiry minutes after the hour.

	Hmm.  I don't have a -g on my cfexecd man page, and I'm using 
2.1.0 p1 like you.

	I'm not sure what you mean about the inittab bit, but here's what 
I suggest: use one of the following, but *not both*:
-       Use cron to run cfagent (not cfexecd)
-       Run cfexecd from your init scripts, and don't run it from cron
        (this is the recommended option)

	Why?  Because cfexecd lives in memory and runs cfagent every x 
amount.  Now you're wondering why anyone would write the 
mini-cron-replacement called cfexecd, and the answer is that it's more 
flexible in cfengine-specific circumstances (I think :) ).

	Anyway, you also want your cfagent.conf (or a subfile) to have 
something like the following:

        schedule        = ( Min00_05 Min30_35 )

> > I get proper logs in /var/cfengine/outputs for each invocation of
> > cfexecd from cron, but all the logs from the child of init are 0
> > length files.
> >
> > I thought I was only getting this related to updates, but all of my
> > systems are having the same problem.
> >
> > Has anyone else here reproduced this? I'm on cfengine-2.1.0p1.

        Does what I said help?


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