RE: Cfexecd enhancements

[Andrews, Martin]

Should work all the time - run cfexecd with the verbose flag. You should see
cfexecd wake up every minute, but only once every five minutes will it
succeed in acquiring the lock and run cfagent.

Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: Bas van der Vlies [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 10:28 AM
To: Martin Andrews
Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden
Subject: Re: Cfexecd enhancements



I'm using version 2.0.0 final, must i use a keyword to activate it?


On 28-Mar-2002 Martin Andrews wrote:
> I had supplied a patch to Mark that did this limit control using locks. It

> had the bonus limiting runs to minimum of 5 minute intervals whether they 
> came from cfexecd or cfservd. I though this patch made it into the final
2.0 
> release. Just checked and it seems to be there. What version of cfengine
are 
> you using?
> 
> Martin
> 
> On Thursday 28 March 2002 06:45 am, Bas van der Vlies wrote:
>> 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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> -- 
> Martin Andrews
> LION bioscience Inc.
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