Re: cfagent problem

[Mark Burgess]

The problem (mentioned in the docs) is with nfs. NFS code is in the
kernel. If cfengine is asked to use NFS then *nothing* it or anyone else
can do can recover from an NFS hang until NFS itself recovers, because
NFS has kernel privileges. This is not a cfengine problem, it's an NFS
problem. SOrry.

M

On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 14:11 -0200, Luiz Gustavo Anflor Pereira wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi all
> 
> I am new, hope i am not repeating some thread...
> 
> Anyway, i have this scenario: my /home is mounted on a nfs server
> machine. Sometimes, by some reason, this /home is momentary lost.
> Cfexecd is running on background as a daemon, and it happens to be
> executed when the nfs is down (os lost, or..). When this occurs, it
> seems that cfagent hungs up, not terminating.
> 
> When i run from command line ps ax | grep cf, i see 
> 
> 3291 ?        S      0:00 /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent -Dfrom_cfexecd
> 
> and when the situation is bad, many lines like that.
> 
> How can i tell the cfagent, or cfexecd, to kill itself, or to finish,
> when this situation occurs? Is there something like a time-out?
> 
> any help will be usefull... thanks.
> 
> Luiz Gustavo
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