Re: Lack of output

[Russell Adams]

So, in order to differentiate the tasks, are you using schedule+timeclasses to
make cfexecd only check the cron configuration?

Then in cron, you're calling cfagent directly instead of cfexecd?

Care to share your crontab entry?

Russell 

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 03:50:04PM -0500, Wheeler, John wrote:
> >     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)
> > 
> I actually run cfagent in both init and cron. The cfexecd run from init
> does nothing but ensure that the appropriate line in cron exists, and
> that cron is running. The cfexecd run from cron does all the work. I
> chose this after being disappointed with lockups (though infrequent) in
> cfagent for what ever reason.
> 
> If I had stuff scheduled, and cfagent was locked up, the next interval
> would not happen, preventing many of my cron replacement jobs from
> running. Now all my cron type jobs run out of cfagent run from the cron
> invocation. 
> 
> Get it 8-)
> 
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