On 1 dec 2010, at 17:49, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: > 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.
I run cf-execd as daemon. This runs cf-agent and this checks if cron is running. Also use cron to check if cf-execd is still runing. -- Bas van der Vlies b...@sara.nl _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
