Re: schedule parameter?

[Marco van Beek]

Hi Paul,

It occurs to me that if cfagent is run by cfexecd with a splay time, the 
Min00_05 might be too narrow a band.

Regards,

Marco.

Paul Krizak wrote:
> We're running cfengine here at AMD to maintain about 10,000 systems. 
> Until recently we've been running cfagent only once - during 
> installation - to configure the system.  We're now trying to make the 
> next step of running cfexecd on systems to maintain configuration.
>
> Only problem is that apparently the "schedule" parameter is being very 
> strange.
>
> I want cfagent to run at 7am every morning.  So I have this statement in 
> my control section:
>
>     schedule = ( Hr07 Min00_05 )
>
> With the presumption that cfagent ANDs the time classes together (the 
> docs are very very tight-lipped about how to specify time classes). What 
> this ended up doing, however, was to make cfagent run at the top of the 
> hour, every hour, and continuously for an hour (over and over and over 
> again) during the 7:00 hour.  So apparently the time classes are ORed, 
> and cfagent doesn't seem smart enough to know to only run once during a 
> particular time period.
>
> How do I tell cfengine to run *ONCE* at 7am, and only *ONCE* per day?