[hobbit] hobbit.sh not stopping server correctly

[j.sansford at ntlworld.com]

Well whadaya know...set the service timeout to around 7-8 minutes and it works. It may be slow...but at least it now has automatic resiliance.

Many thanks all.

James.

---- j.sansford at ntlworld.com wrote: 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> I've tried waiting over 5 minutes. I'll try waiting a little longer...:)
> 
> 
> ---- Greg Hubbard <glh.forums at gmail.com> wrote: 
> > How long are you waiting after you kill the main Hobbit process for all the
> > other processes to die off?  Sometimes it can take several minutes for all
> > the iostats and vmstats and such to complete -- they must be independent of
> > their parent.  Add-ons, especially from deadcat (written for BB, not
> > Hobbit/Xymon) must be considered separately...
> > 
> > GLH
> > 
> > 
> > On 8/18/09, j.sansford at ntlworld.com <j.sansford at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi there Jef,
> > >
> > > I assume that question was aimed at me? The stop script stops
> > > "hobbitlaunch" and not a client - however the client is owned by
> > > hobbitlaunch as it is configured within hobbitlaunch.cfg - we don't run a
> > > separately owned client on the system.
> > >
> > >
> > > ---- jef.jagers at thomsonreuters.com wrote:
> > > > Hi Buchan,
> > > >
> > > > Just a stuppid question.
> > > > But have you stopped and the hobbit server and the hobbit client on that
> > > machine or only the server?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Jef Jagers
> > > > Systems Engineer
> > > > Thomson CompuMark
> > > >
> > > > Thomson Reuters
> > > >
> > > > T +32 3 220 76 02
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: j.sansford at ntlworld.com [mailto:j.sansford at ntlworld.com]
> > > > Sent: dinsdag, augustus 18, 2009 13:25
> > > > To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> > > > Subject: Re: [hobbit] hobbit.sh not stopping server correctly
> > > >
> > > > 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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