RE: Cfexecd enhancements

[Andrews, Martin]

Sure enough I see that exec_ifelapsed it set to 0 in cf.defs.h (and
exec_expireafter is 10). I had originally defined these as:

#define exec_ifelapsed 5
#define exec_expireafter 30

Martin

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Subject: Re: Cfexecd enhancements



It seems that the 5 minute lock has been set to 0 for some reason.
I shall look at this today. Anyway, I am adding classes
Q1,Q2,..Q4 for the quarter hours and abbreviations: Hr12_Q1 etc
for simplicity.

I'll be putting out a few small changes and fixes in 2.0.1 soon.

M


On  2 Apr, Bas van der Vlies wrote:
> 
> Mark you can even leave out the ifelapsed keyword. It is not in my config
> files. It is just the default one. My point is that cfexecd must start
> cfagent once in a five minute interval and not 5 times. I know i can set 
> Iflapsed to 5 minutes and let cfagent handle the locking, but i prefer
> that cfexecd will do this for me.
> 
> 
> On 02-Apr-2002 address@hidden wrote:
>> 
>> Bas, you are not telling me what I want to know. Why is the locking
>> not doing its job? Is it because you are resetting IfElapsed to one
minute?
>> 
>> M
>> 
>> On  2 Apr, Bas van der Vlies wrote:
>>> Mark,
>>> 
>>>  The answer is in this mail I run cfengine 4 times a hour:
>>>   Quarterly     = (  Min00_05 Min15_20 Min30_35 Min45_50  )
>>>   schedule = (  Min00_05 Min15_20 Min30_35 Min45_50 ) 
>>>   IfElapsed = ( 1 )
>>> 
>>>   With this schedule interval cfagent will run:
>>>     Min00
>>>     Min01
>>>     Min02
>>>     Min03
>>>     Min04 
>>>     Min05
>>> 
>>>   I thought cfexecd only starts cfagent once in a five minute interval,
but
>>>   in my situation this was not true. So that is why i patched cfexecd to
>>>   make
>>>   sure it only run once in a 5 minute interval!
>>> 
>>> On 02-Apr-2002 address@hidden wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 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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>>>>>> *  Bas van der Vlies                     e-mail: address@hidden      *
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