RE: schedule parameter?

[Martin, Jason H]

Does a change in the schedule require restarting cfexecd?

-Jason Martin


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> org] On Behalf Of christian pearce
> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 10:20 AM
> To: Marco van Beek
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> Subject: Re: schedule parameter?
> 
> 
> What gives you that idea?
> 
> Cfexecd queries cfagent for the schedule by running cfagent -qz. See:
> 
> [root@chief root]# cfagent -qz
> [Hr12.Min05_10]
> 
> Then cfexecd sleeps to see if it should run.  At that point 
> it calls cfagent.  The cfagent waits a random period of time 
> between 0 and the splaytime.  If the splaytime is defined.
> 
> At least this is my understanding.  I could be wrong.
> 
> On 9/21/05, Marco van Beek <mvanbeek@supporting-role.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > It occurs to me that if cfagent is run by cfexecd with a 
> splay time, 
> > the Min00_05 might be too narrow a band.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Marco.
> >
> > Paul Krizak wrote:
> > > We're running cfengine here at AMD to maintain about 
> 10,000 systems. 
> > > Until recently we've been running cfagent only once - during 
> > > installation - to configure the system.  We're now trying to make 
> > > the next step of running cfexecd on systems to maintain 
> > > configuration.
> > >
> > > Only problem is that apparently the "schedule" parameter is being 
> > > very strange.
> > >
> > > I want cfagent to run at 7am every morning.  So I have this 
> > > statement in my control section:
> > >
> > >     schedule = ( Hr07 Min00_05 )
> > >
> > > With the presumption that cfagent ANDs the time classes together 
> > > (the docs are very very tight-lipped about how to specify time 
> > > classes). What this ended up doing, however, was to make 
> cfagent run 
> > > at the top of the hour, every hour, and continuously for an hour 
> > > (over and over and over
> > > again) during the 7:00 hour.  So apparently the time 
> classes are ORed,
> > > and cfagent doesn't seem smart enough to know to only run 
> once during a
> > > particular time period.
> > >
> > > How do I tell cfengine to run *ONCE* at 7am, and only *ONCE* per 
> > > day?