Re: Cfexecd enhancements

[Mark . Burgess]

Cfexecd stuff is one of the next things that I'll be looking at.
I cannot respond to this now, but I'll come back to it. Feel free
to send suggestions, but bear in mind that cfexecd and cfenvd are
the primary focus of my research now, so there will be developments
there.

M


On 28 Mar, Bas van der Vlies wrote:
> 
> On 28-Mar-2002 Bas van der Vlies wrote:
>> I'am using the standalone cfexecd-daemon. So that cfexecd can check if cron
>> is
>> running and visa-versa.
>> 
>> I run cfagent 4 times an hour with the follwing setup:
>> groups:
>>   Quarterly     = ( Min15_20 Min30_35 Min45_50 Hourly QTest HTest )
>> 
>> control:
>>   schedule = (  Min00_05 Min15_20 Min30_35 Min45_50 )
>>   IfElapsed = ( 1 )
>> 
>> 
>> In this situation cfagent will run about 17 times in a hour. I know i can set
>> IfElapsed = 5 or higher will prevent cfagent to do something. But i only want
>> to
>> run cfagent once in that period. Can this be done?
>> 
>> My second remark is if i update the cfagent.conf and in cfagent.conf there is
>> a
>> new schedule,sysadm or smtpserver. It will not be seen until we restart the
>> daemon. Can the cfexecd not reread its variables? It can be easily be done to
>> put the GetCfStuff() function inside the while loop.
>>   
> 
> I hate to reply to my own message, but the second remark is NOT true. cfexecd
> reread its variables after cfagent has run!! 
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