Re: [hobbit] hobbit client init script

[Gildas Le Nadan <gn1 (at) sanger.ac.uk>]

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 01:19:52PM +0100, Gildas Le Nadan wrote:
>
> > The way the hobbit init script works (at least on debian), a lot of 
> > processes are left running on the host when doing a 
> > "/etc/init.d/hobbit-client stop".
> >
> > Is there any reason for this?
>
> You mean the vmstat processes ?

Yes, but also df commands that seem to be stalled, such as:

ssgtest1a:~# date
Fri Oct  6 13:36:34 BST 2006
ssgtest1a:~# ps aux | grep hobbit
hobbit   21440  0.0  0.0  5620 1188 ?        S    13:06   0:00 /bin/sh 
/usr/lib/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient-linux.sh
hobbit   21456  0.0  0.0  2580  572 ?        S    13:06   0:00 df -Pl -x none -x 
tmpfs -x shmfs -x unknown -x iso9660
hobbit   21457  0.0  0.0  2624  508 ?        S    13:06   0:00 sed -e /^[^ ?][^ 
?]*$/{?N?s/[ ?]*\n[ ?]*/ /?}


> The reason is that they run pretty independent of everything else, just
> collecting data over a 5 minute period. They will terminate by
> themselves after at most 5 minutes; and if you're shutting down the
> system, they will get killed.
>
> It's not that it has to be this way, but it was just the easiest way of
> doing it.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik