Re: Starting cfexecd from cfagent

[Andrew Stribblehill]

Quoting Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com> (2003-02-21 03:56:13 GMT):
> I would like to run cfexecd in daemon mode, and I'd like cfagent to
> launch it if it isn't running.  So I throw this in to my cfagent.conf:
> 
>     processes:
>         "cfexecd" restart "/var/cfengine/bin/cfexecd"
> 
> But cfexecd is also run from cron like this:
> 
>     0,30 * * * * root /var/cfengine/bin/cfexecd -F
> 
> And it seems that cfagent, when run from cfexecd, can't spawn cfexecd.
> Maybe this is why the tutorial doesn't recommend doing this.

Well, it *can* but it doesn't because there's already one running :)

> Is there a simple solution to this?  It'd be nice to get cfagent
> launching cfexecd, since the point of cfengine is to avoid the
> portability problems of doing this kind of thing with external
> scripts.

<hack type="ugly">
Make a symlink: (cd /var/cfengine/bin && ln -s cfexecd Cfexecd)
Edit your crontab to call Cfexecd rather than cfexecd
</hack>

This way, ps will see it as being Cfexecd and not cfexecd, and won't
mind starting cfexecd.


Your alternative is to get cron to call the daemon without arguments,
but you'll have to redirect stderr to /dev/null and not care about
its exit status if you do that.

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