[hobbit] hobbit client init script

T.J. Yang tj_yang at hotmail.com
Fri Oct 6 15:24:37 CEST 2006


One way is to modify/enhance hobbit init script to kill  processes own by 
hobbit after the stop.


In Solaris, ie. kill `ps -u hobbit | grep -v PID|  awk '{print $1}'`


T.J. Yang




>From: Gildas Le Nadan <gn1 at sanger.ac.uk>
>Reply-To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>Subject: Re: [hobbit] hobbit client init script
>Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 13:40:12 +0100
>
>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
>
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