On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 03:57:11PM -0500, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: >Forum: Cfengine Help >Subject: Re: Issue with action => background >Author: daveseff >Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,20387,20391#msg-20391 > >Thanks Neil, That works better. Strange, however, I wonder if it still waits >for the process to finish before cf-agent exits. > ># cfagent -IK >... > -> Executing '/usr/local/ibAdmin/bin/update_cfengine_inventory' > ...(timeout=-678,owner=-1,group=-1) > -> Completed execution of /usr/local/ibAdmin/bin/update_cfengine_inventory > -> Link /var/cfengine3/failsafe/bin/cf-agent as promised > >after several seconds.... > -> Completed execution of /usr/local/ibAdmin/bin/update_cfengine_inventory > >So I'm guessing cf-agent can not 'fire and forget' in true fashion. I wanted >to avoid hanging cf-agent if my external process hung.
That's been my experience as well. The parent cf-agent process will wait for all child processes to complete before it will terminate. You could, I suppose, have a wrapper program to help with this, but that's more trouble than it is worth in our case. -- Jesse Becker NHGRI Linux support (Digicon Contractor) _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
