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Xymon client doesn't clean up all of its children

list John Thurston
Thu, 26 Feb 2015 09:55:47 -0900
Message-Id: <user-a9b2f016422d@xymon.invalid>

On Feb 26, 2015, at 13:17, John Thurston <user-ce4d79d99bab@xymon.invalid
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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