[hobbit] hobbit.sh not stopping server correctly

[j.sansford at ntlworld.com]

Hi Buchan,

Apologies, I'll explain it in more detail. We are running on Solaris 10 and trying to configure Xymon as an SMF service (which essentially uses stop/start scripts). The stop script is basically:

kill -TERM `cat /export/home/hobbit/logs/hobbitlaunch.pid`

Where hobbitlaunch.pid is the PID of the hobbitlaunch process. When running this command we are left with many stray processes, not just a vmstat. For example:

/usr/local/bin/ssh -l root 10.6.6.6 sysstat -m -c1 290
sh -c (/usr/local/bin/ssh -l root 10.6.6.5 sysstat -x -c1 290 >/export/home/hob

Doing a bit more digging it seems these are related to an ext/netapp monitor perl script. Taking this out leaves less processes (although I don't want to leave it out forever so I'll have to do a bit of digging around to find out how to kill these gracefully) however because the iostats do not finish the SMF reports a failure rather than a disable when I try to stop the monitor. This means the SMF can't restart the bbserver if it ever crashes. 


----- Original Message -----
From: "Buchan Milne" <bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net>
To: <hobbit at hswn.dk>
Cc: <j.sansford at ntlworld.com>
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: [hobbit] hobbit.sh not stopping server correctly

> On Monday, 17 August 2009 11:04:36 j.sansford at ntlworld.com wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think I have an issue with 4.2.3 where the hobbit.sh is not stopping the
>> server correctly. Running "./hobbit.sh stop" doesn't stop all the hobbit
>> processes
>
> Which processes remain? A vmstat running as the hobbit / xymon user?
>
>> and so I can't install this as a service currently. Could anyone
>> help me to debug why this is happening? I'm not really sure where to go
>> from here.
>
> It's a bit difficult with no information. A stray vmstat process after stopping
> xymon is expected, and using the example init scripts provided in the debian
> or rpm directories works on many distros ...
>
> Regards,
> Buchan
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