Re: Cfexecd enhancements

[Mark . Burgess]

How can it not work? Can you give more info?

M

On  2 Apr, Bas van der Vlies wrote:
> 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.
>>> address@hidden
>> 
>> --
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>> *  Bas van der Vlies                     e-mail: address@hidden      *
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> *  Bas van der Vlies                     e-mail: address@hidden      *
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