For what its worth, I originally had been running cf-execd as a daemon managed by a Solaris 10 SMF service
This ended up being a bad idea. When cf-execd, cf-agent spawn child processes -- all of these processes are inherited by the same Solaris "contract id". This means if you have a module that has a non-zero return status, Solaris' SMF facility thinks "oh, I need to restart everything managed by this contract." Sometimes, this had cf-execd SMF service in maintenance mode and further, not running. I then moved to putting cf-execd -F into root's crontab. I have policies that verify that cf-serverd and cf-monitord are kept running as daemons. Running cf-execd -F through cron so far has worked great for me, and its the same implementation regardless of what Linux / Unix O/S you're on. On 12/1/10 3:42 PM, "Bas van der Vlies" <b...@sara.nl> wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
