You could make the command set an at job instead of calling shutdown directly, but that's a bit hackish. There must be a way to make the command run in the background, but I don't know the trick offhand.
Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B200.3A MTS Systems Engineer Austin, TX 78735 Advanced Micro Devices Desk: (512) 602-8775 Linux/Unix Systems Engineering Cell: (512) 791-0686 Global IT Infrastructure Fax: (512) 602-0468 On 08/11/2011 11:24 AM, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: > Forum: CFEngine Help > Subject: Cfengine performing system shutdown/restart > Author: ro > Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23082,23082#msg-23082 > > Hi, > for a specific use case I need Cfengine to restart the host when a special > global class has been set by another promise. > > Initially I thought I'd add a last promise 'restartHost' that would call the > shutdown command which would restart the system two minutes afterwards (to > give cfengine enough time to complete): > > > bundle agent restartHost { > vars: > any:: > "cmd_restart" string => "/sbin/shutdown -r 2"; > commands: > any:: > "$(cmd_restart)", > comment => "If this is the first cfengine run > on this machine, restart the host in order to reinitialize some services", > classes => cmd_if_else("restartHost"); > reports: > repaired_restartHost:: "Repaired promise restartHost. Host is > going to restart in 2 minutes!"; > failed_restartHost:: "WARNING: Repair of promise restartHost > FAILED! Need to manually restart host!"; > } > > > What I did not think of was that the shutdown process always stays in > foreground, so cfengine is patiently waiting for this process to finish > before proceeding and finishing the cfengine run. However, Cfengine cannot > gracefully finish its run because the system is going down before, forcefully > stopping the cfengine process. > > No matter how hard I try to send the shutdown process to the background > ('action => bg', '/sbin/shutdown -r 2&', 'contain => silent'), Cfengine > would always wait for the shutdown process to finish before proceeding. > > Any ideas? > > Cheers, > Robert > > _______________________________________________ > 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
