Not to toot my own horn, but check out the Tips & Tricks page
regarding Hung Shellcommands on cfwiki.org.
Russell
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 08:07:23AM -0700, Ed Brown wrote:
> This is a Regularly Asked Question, if not Frequently, and has to do
> with file descriptors not being handled properly somewhere in the init
> script. Try appending "</dev/null" to your shellcommand.
>
> -Ed
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 02:05, greg wrote:
> > Hello there,
> >
> > I have a startup script that I'd like to run whith shellcommands. This
> > script uses nohup to run the
> > binary file:
> >
> > #!/bin/shell
> > [...]
> > su - ${user} -c "nohup /opt/foo/bin/bar &"
> > exit 0
> >
> > In my cfagent.cfg file:
> >
> > shellcommands:
> >
> > "/my/init/script start"
> >
> >
> > The problem is: when I run cfagent, it "waits" for /opt/foo/bin/bar. I have
> > to stop /opt/foo/bin/bar
> > to make cfagent end properly. Otherwise, I have to Ctrl-c it.
> > I already tried "background=true", "useshell=false", the result is the same.
> > When I try "timeout=X", cfagent ends properly, but /opt/foo/bin/bar doesn't
> > run.
> >
> > I don't understand what's wrong with my script, or my conf ? Thanks a lot
> > for your help !
> >
> > greg
> >
> > --
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> >
> >
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