RE: Cfexecd enhancements

[Bas van der Vlies]

I have run it with the verbose flag and i got 4 a 5 emails in a 5 minute 
interval. So the lock mechanism did no work for me.

                Regards

On 28-Mar-2002 Andrews, Martin wrote:
> 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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> 
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*  Bas van der Vlies                     e-mail: address@hidden      *
*  SARA - Academic Computing Services    phone:  +31 20 592 8012   *
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