Hmm... Well, I don't have any experience with running cfexecd this way, but it looks like you're trying to run it in daemon mode. If you are running cfexecd in daemon mode, it should be the one that launches cfagent, based on time schedules that you set up with classes.
Perhaps since you're new to this, you might just take that line out, and launch cfexecd -F (fork option) from cron every hour. When you get more comfortable with your config, you can try using the cfexecd as a launcher and eliminating cron. See the following reference: http://www.cfengine.org/docs/cfengine-Tutorial.html#Using-cfengine-as-a-fron t_002dend-for-cron Also, see this reference for cfexecd: http://www.cfengine.org/docs/cfengine-Reference.html#Cfexecd-reference Where you will find the following text: "An alternative, or additional way to run cfengine, is to run the cfexecd program is daemon mode (without the -F) option. In this mode, the daemon lives in the background and sleeps, activating only in accordance with a scheduling policy. The default policy is to run once every hour (equivalent to Min00_05). Here is how you would modify cfagent.conf in order to make the daemon execute cfagent every half-hour:" control: # When should cfexecd in daemon mode wake up the agent? schedule = ( Min00_05 Min30_35 ) Luke -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of PAUL WILLIAMSON Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 4:11 PM To: help-cfengine@gnu.org Subject: RE: cfenvd dumping core I just tried to delete all my db files on one of the clients... I ran cfagent -v on the client (I did not delete the db on the policy master) and it left a big core dump. $ file core core: ELF 32-bit MSB core file SPARC Version 1, from 'cfexecd' So, it looks like cfexecd is core dumping. Interestingly, my cfagent file is configured to restart cfenvd, cfservd and cfexecd if necessary: "cfenvd" restart "/usr/local/sbin/cfenvd" "cfservd" restart "/usr/local/sbin/cfservd" "cfexecd$" restart "/usr/local/sbin/cfexecd" If I remove cfexecd$, I get no core dump. Is this the correct format for starting up cfexecd? Paul >>> "Mark Burgess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/02/05 3:36 PM >>> This is a possible explanation for the problem. One might also try downloading the latest snapshot from www.cfengine.org where a few patches are applied. Certainly I cannot understand why cfenvd should cause cfexecd to crash. They are utterly independent. The only conceivable link between them is Berkeley DB. Mark On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 15:07 -0400, Luke Youngblood wrote: > Have you used two or more different compiled binaries on the same box > without deleting DB files in between runs? > > Initially, I was using the 2.1.13 version of Cfengine from SunFreeware. I > decided to switch to Blastwave's version of 2.1.14, which is compiled > against a different version of BerkeleyDB. > > What I found was that Cfagent and Cfenvd were throwing lots of errors > related to database issues. Cfenvd would core dump every time I started it. > > In order to resolve these issues, I removed all of the databases that > Cfagent and Cfenvd were complaining about (run cfagent -v), then let cfagent > recreate them on its next run. I didn't have any problems after that. > > Just to be sure and cleanup properly, you might first kill cfenvd and > cfservd, then nuke everything under /var/cfengine, and perform a run of > cfagent again. This should reinitialize all the databases and everything > should work fine from then on. > > It seems that different versions of BerkeleyDB create files that are > slightly different in format. > > Hope this helps, > > Luke > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of PAUL WILLIAMSON > Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 2:26 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; help-cfengine@gnu.org > Subject: Re: cfenvd dumping core > > I have almost the same situation. Although I get a decent core > almost all the time. I have both binaries I've compiled (with the > same versions of tools as you, but only sol8) and ones from > someone on the list. Either way, running remotely always > cores out cfexec or cfagent. > > Paul > > >>> "Baker, Darryl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/02/05 1:51 PM >>> > Gentlefolk, > I'm having a problem where cfenvd is Seg faulting and sometimes > taking cfexecd with it though I don't get a core from cfexecd. It > doesn't > happen with any consistency or pattern. Some machines will have it > happen > every other day others it will happen once a week. I have 134 machines > and I > can go 16 hours without a failure and then have 5 fail in the next 4 > hours. > > This is with 2.1.14 on Solaris 8 and 9 boxes compiled with gcc 3.3.2 > and > linked with OpenSSL 0.9.7. The same version of OpenSSL is on all > machines. > > _____________________________________________________________________ > Darryl Baker > Senior Unix Specialist > gedas USA, Inc. > Operational Services Business Unit > 3800 Hamlin Road > Auburn Hills, MI 48326 > US > phone +1-248-754-5341 > fax +1-248-754-6399 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.gedasusa.com > _____________________________________________________________________ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine > > > > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
