The problem (mentioned in the docs) is with nfs. NFS code is in the kernel. If cfengine is asked to use NFS then *nothing* it or anyone else can do can recover from an NFS hang until NFS itself recovers, because NFS has kernel privileges. This is not a cfengine problem, it's an NFS problem. SOrry.
M On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 14:11 -0200, Luiz Gustavo Anflor Pereira wrote: > > > Hi all > > I am new, hope i am not repeating some thread... > > Anyway, i have this scenario: my /home is mounted on a nfs server > machine. Sometimes, by some reason, this /home is momentary lost. > Cfexecd is running on background as a daemon, and it happens to be > executed when the nfs is down (os lost, or..). When this occurs, it > seems that cfagent hungs up, not terminating. > > When i run from command line ps ax | grep cf, i see > > 3291 ? S 0:00 /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent -Dfrom_cfexecd > > and when the situation is bad, many lines like that. > > How can i tell the cfagent, or cfexecd, to kill itself, or to finish, > when this situation occurs? Is there something like a time-out? > > any help will be usefull... thanks. > > Luiz Gustavo > _______________________________________________ > 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
