Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: cf-execd: is daemon or cron better? Author: babudro Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19542,19542#msg-19542
Does anyone have experience or a knowledgeable opinion on this topic? In section 4.2 of the Reference Manual it demonstrates putting cf-execd in the crontab and in section 1.10 it tells you to change the old "cfexecd" to "cf-execd" in crontab. Section 2.9 of the Reference Manual shows an example of running it as a daemon and the Concept Guide says, "Whether you choose to run cf-execd in daemon mode, or in wrapper mode is entirely up to you." We are currently running it from cron, but I noticed the installation default in /etc/default/cfengine3 is for it to start as a daemon. I once missed changing that and ended up with two copies of cf-execd running every five minutes, so I made a policy to check that. I noticed a couple of posts where people had troubles (core dump I believe it was) when killing the daemon. I suppose it avoids any potential memory leaks to have it completely die off each time. If Mark or any of the dev team would share any insight they have I'd be especially glad to hear from them. _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
