On 04/23/2010 05:18 PM, Atanu Ghosh wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> From memory, the runit program needs to know that the programs it has
> started are ready to accept XRLs. The argument after the '=''s is a
> program to run to determine that the program is ready. In the case of
> xorp_fea_dummy the call_xrl program makes 10 attempts ("-r 10") to get
> the target name. Without this the programs will be started without
> delay and XRLs will be sent to the programs before they are ready to
> accept them. The runit program does not require the router manager, in
> a simpler universe it would have been nice to have been able to use
> the router manage to start the programs.
>
> In the xorp/tests directory I was starting to experiment with using
> python only for testing. The runit program not only starts the
> programs but more importantly notices if they fail.Thanks, I found the problem. runit was using execv instead of execvp, and I was passing in an executable name 'call_xrl' instead of a full path to call_xrl. I changed it to use execvp for more flexibility. Also, call_xrl was running it's 10 tries in a tight loop..so I added a sleep(1) between retries. Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear <[email protected]> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com _______________________________________________ Xorp-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/xorp-hackers
