Re: [hobbit] hobbit.sh not stopping server correctly

[<j.sansford (at) ntlworld.com>]

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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