[Xymon] Xymon client doesn't clean up all of its children

[John Thurston]

> On Feb 26, 2015, at 13:17, John Thurston <john.thurston at alaska.gov
>> On 2/26/2015 9:14 AM, Mark Felder wrote:
>>> ~~ I can't verify on other OSes right now, so I'm hoping someone can
>>> chime in ~~
>>>
>>> On FreeBSD when I stop the Xymon client process it doesn't clean up all
>>> of its children. Primarily you'll find that the vmstat command is not
>>> sent a signal and continues to run ... indefinitely?
>>
>> I have observed this behavior on Solaris, but the vmstat does eventually
>> disappear. It does not run forever.

On 2/26/2015 9:44 AM, Novosielski, Ryan wrote:
 > However, the result is that you can't do a restart on Solaris 10 with
 > SMF if you are using vmstat. I have patched my scripts on Solaris to
 > kill the child processes.

Ahhh. I haven't run into this problem because I'm not trying to use SMF 
to control it. I use " ~/server/xymon.sh restart " if I want to restart 
it interactively as the non-priv'd user. As root, my init-script does 
about the same thing.

For future reference, how did you modify your manifest or scripts to 
meet your needs?
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