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Bug #3146

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remove : crontab not clean

Added by Francois BAYART almost 12 years ago. Updated over 9 years ago.

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Jonathan CLARKE

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Packaging

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2.5.0~rc1

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Description

after my "apt-get remove rudder-agent && dpkg --purge rudder-agent", I have kill the cfengine process but after 5 minutes its come back !

The /etc/crontab have this line :

0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * root if [ `ps -efww | grep cf-execd | grep "/var/rudder/cfengine-community/bin/cf-execd" 
| grep -v grep | wc -l` -eq 0 ]; then /var/rudder/cfengine-community/bin/cf-execd; fi

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Related issues 2 (0 open — 2 closed)

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Updated by François ARMAND almost 12 years ago

Status changed from New to 8
Assignee set to Matthieu CERDA
Priority changed from N/A to 3
Target version set to 2.3.10

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Updated by Jonathan CLARKE almost 12 years ago

Priority changed from 3 to 1 (highest)
Target version changed from 2.3.10 to 2.5.0~rc1

Matthieu, can you work on a change for this for 2.5 please? This is too impacting to change in 2.3 or 2.4 (stable versions), but can make it into 2.5.

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Updated by Francois BAYART almost 12 years ago

same remark with :
- /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99rudder
- /etc/rsyslog.d/rudder-agent.conf

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Updated by Jonathan CLARKE almost 12 years ago

We've decided to move the cron line as suggested by Fabrice to /etc/cron.d/rudder-agent. Steps to complete:

Create this file in the system Technique common (the plain cron file to be copied as is)
Edit the system Technique common to copy this file to /etc/cron.d/rudder-agent
Edit the system Technique common to delete_lines the old line from /etc/crontab
Edit the packaging of rudder-agent so that SOURCES/Makefile copies the rudder-agent cron file from the rudder-techniques repo
Adapt the packaging (deb and RPM) to copy this file into place on install, and clear it up on package purge

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Updated by Matthieu CERDA almost 12 years ago

Status changed from 8 to In progress
Assignee changed from Matthieu CERDA to Jonathan CLARKE

The first part has been done: a Technique update that puts the Rudder cron configuration in cron.d instead of crontab.

There is still the packaging work to do.

A little word of caution, in the Technique, I used the local_cp body (defined in the stdlib), we might want to use another one as I suspect that it uses the mtime file comparison method by default. (Should not harm, but might cause some funny things if the user alters the file on the destination machine...)

Jon, you turn :)

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