[hobbit] INTERVAL in clientlaunch.cfg

[Jeff Newman]

Hi,

Well, Im getting data every second now so thats good.

I was trying to just get all the same data as netstat, but for some reason,
the rrd is
only populated by "echo". im guessing because in the output from netstat -s,
echo
is the only thing that has name: number (this is an AIX box BTW) so how
is hobbit doing it normally then for the rrd on the other side to work
correctly?

-Jeff


On 1/19/06, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 10:33:15PM -0600, Jeff Newman wrote:
>
> > Question about the INTERVAL setting in clientlaunch.cfg:
> >
> > Per the man page (for hobbitlaunch.cfg)
> >
> > The *INTERVAL* keyword defines how often this command is executed. {...}
> > Intervals can be specified in seconds (if you just put a number there),
> or
> > in minutes (5m), hours (2h), or days (1d).
> >
> > So I was trying to get netstat -s working every second.
> >
> > [hiflow_net]
> >         ENVFILE /usr/local/hobbit/client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg
> >         CMD /usr/local/hobbit/client/ext/hiflow_net
> >         LOGFILE=/tmp/hilog
> >         INTERVAL 1
>
> hobbitlaunch has a built-in safety catch, so you cannot run a
> task more often than once every 5-10 seconds. That's to prevent
> it from fork-bombing your system.
>
> If you really need that, use a wrapper around your script:
>
>   #!/bin/sh
>
>   while 1
>   do
>       /usr/local/hobbit/client/ext/hiflow_net
>       sleep 1
>   done
>
> and run the wrapper-script from hobbitlaunch (without any
> INTERVAL setting since it keeps running).
>
>
> Henrik
>
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