Re: schedule parameter?

[christian pearce]

Reading the code.  It looks like it updates the schedule after the
last schedule ran.

On 9/21/05, Martin, Jason H <jason.h.martin@cingular.com> wrote:
> Does a change in the schedule require restarting cfexecd?
>
> -Jason Martin
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:
> > help-cfengine-bounces+jason.h.martin=cingular.com@gnu.org
> > [mailto:help-cfengine-bounces+jason.h.martin=cingular.com@gnu.
> > org] On Behalf Of christian pearce
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 10:20 AM
> > To: Marco van Beek
> > Cc: help-cfengine@gnu.org
> > Subject: Re: schedule parameter?
> >
> >
> > What gives you that idea?
> >
> > Cfexecd queries cfagent for the schedule by running cfagent -qz. See:
> >
> > [root@chief root]# cfagent -qz
> > [Hr12.Min05_10]
> >
> > Then cfexecd sleeps to see if it should run.  At that point
> > it calls cfagent.  The cfagent waits a random period of time
> > between 0 and the splaytime.  If the splaytime is defined.
> >
> > At least this is my understanding.  I could be wrong.
> >
> > On 9/21/05, Marco van Beek <mvanbeek@supporting-role.co.uk> wrote:
> > > 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?
>
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