hobbit.sh not stopping server correctly

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, user-c15424b7e83a@xymon.invalid <user-c15424b7e83a@xymon.invalid> 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.


---- user-a78daed26301@xymon.invalid 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: user-c15424b7e83a@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-c15424b7e83a@xymon.invalid]
Sent: dinsdag, augustus 18, 2009 13:25
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
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" <user-9b139aff4dec@xymon.invalid>
To: <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
Cc: <user-c15424b7e83a@xymon.invalid>
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 user-c15424b7e83a@xymon.invalid 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