Process statements require a signal, AFAIK. You might try using a
benign signal like HUP (if your process doesn't respond to HUP) so that
you don't kill or restart the process, but the class definition works
anyway.
I've never used processes: in this way before, however, so I'm not sure.
You can get a list of signals you can send to a process by running 'kill
-l'.
Some benign signals that come to mind are SIGCONT (continue), SIGALRM
(alarm clock), SIGURG (???)...there's bound to be a signal you can use
that your processes simply ignore.
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Guillaume Rousse wrote:
I'd like to manage process on clients to make sure some processes are
running, and some others are not. I don't want to send processes signals
directly, I prefer to use system service scripts, so as to take care of
lock file, etc... I once used restart facility, allowing to launch a
shell command, but only if a signal was not found, thus unable to deal
with shutting down processes.
I tries to use the define and elsedefine facilities, in a similar manner
as I do for managing installed packages. However, it appears to trigger
errors in cfengine.
The following syntax:
"sshd" elsedefine=need_start_sshd
triggers the following error message:
Insufficient or incomplete processes statement
I tested it with cfengine 2.1.12 and 2.1.15.
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