Re: Cfexecd enhancements

[Bas van der Vlies]

Mark,

 I have a solution to only run cfagent once in a 5 minute interval. Is quite
 easy. The patch is included in the attachment.

        Regards


On 28-Mar-2002 address@hidden wrote:
> 
> 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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