On 22 Aug 2007 at 2:01, Ivan Adzhubey wrote: > Hi Ryan, > > On Wednesday 22 August 2007 01:47:45 am Ryan Novosielski wrote: > > John Drescher wrote: > > >> Of course it is not running, that's what the whole story is about. I > > >> have a bunch of desktop/laptop clients configured that can be shut > > >> down/disconnected/not around at random and are well beyond my control. > > > > > > Sorry. I totally missed your point but I see now. > > > > Easy to do. I often read some part of the message and say to myself > > "it's this damn question again" and rattle something off, not noticing > > that it has nothing to do with that until the quoted text happens to > > catch my eye. > > > > >> I want > > >> bacula to cease any further attempts to contact them after initial > > >> configured FD timeout value expires. It appears that it is still trying > > >> to do something after that, something that I don't even understand. And > > >> those stuck jobs block the queue so no other scheduled jobs can run. > > > > > > I am not sure if this still exists in the latest bacula-2.2.0 as I > > > have never messed with fd timeouts however at work (dozens of clients > > > that may be off backed up every day) I combat this by allowing > > > concurrency. > > > > What Ivan needs is a RunBeforeJob that tests for the client. Please > > search the list archives for more information, as this question gets > > asked almost weekly. > > Does not this fact prove that this is a design flaw? Why would so many people > ask this same question again and again otherwise? Using RunBeforeJob script > for that purpose is a hack, nothing more. Rest assured that I've searched the > archive before posting and that's part of the reason that I am a bit upset, I > should admit. I just don't fancy wasting my time on hacking around a bug > reported multiple times since 4 years ago and never fixed due to obviously > non-technical reasons.
Ivan: You're absolutely right. This issue has never been dealt with. I'm sure it's positvely annoying for the people who must live with this. What do you think is the best way to correct this design flaw? -- Dan Langille - http://www.langille.org/ Available for hire: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
