Re: Lack of output

[Russell Adams]

I run 'cfexecd -g' from init, and 'cfexecd -F' in cron.

My understanding for running cfexecd instead of just running cfagent
is that cfexecd handles the logging and mailing the admin.

Options:

--help                    (-h)
--debug                   (-d)
--verbose                 (-v)
--file                    (-f)
--no-fork                 (-F)
--once                    (-1)
--foreground              (-g)
--parse-only              (-p)
--ld-library-path         (-L)

Russell

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 04:15:54PM +1000, Tim Nelson wrote:
> >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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