[launchd-dev] Stray Proccess Log message

[Geoff Franks]

On 2/22/08 10:45 AM, "Dave Zarzycki" <zarzycki at apple.com> wrote:

> 
> On Feb 22, 2008, at 6:15 AM, Geoff Franks wrote:
> 
>> On 2/21/08 6:31 PM, "Dave Zarzycki" <zarzycki at apple.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Feb 21, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Geoff Franks wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I have a previously-cronned job that I'm moving to launchd on my new
>>>> 10.5
>>>> server. It runs every 10 minutes, and causes the following entry to
>>>> show up
>>>> in the syslog:
>>>> 
>>>> Feb 21 15:43:45 server1 com.apple.launchd[1]
>>>> (edu.buffalo.hwi.raidutil[43977]): Stray process with PGID equal to
>>>> this
>>>> dead job: PID 43983 PPID 1 sendmail
>>>> 
>>>> The script the launchd job runs calls sendmail a the end of it, so
>>>> my guess
>>>> is that the script finishes, while sendmail is still running, and
>>>> then
>>>> launchd has to clean up after the script exits, so tries to kill the
>>>> sendmail process. However, my emails are all going through and
>>>> seemingly
>>>> working properly.
>>> 
>>> That is probably just luck.
>>> 
>>>> Additionally, I specified the AbandonProccessGrop  <true/>
>>>> key in the plist so it wouldn't try cleaning up the other processes
>>>> spawned.
>>>> Shouldn't this take care of the log message?
>>> 
>>> Nope. We hope that you'll someday update the script to either wait
>>> for
>>> descendant processes to finish, or alternatively, properly daemonize
>>> them.
>>> 
>>> davez
>> 
>> This is a 10 line bash script that I ran as a cron job previously. It
>> emailed on failures. Why would I daemonize something like that?
> 
> Unless  you're consciously backgrounding sendmail, the bug is more
> likely in the sendmail program itself.
> 
> davez


/usr/sbin/raidutil list status | /usr/bin/mail -s "RAID: `hostname`"
<myaddress>


Is all I'm calling. I've had reports of a few other people on the
MacEnterprise list with similar issues regarding postfix/sendmail and
launchd jobs. Should I file a bug report for this?

Geoff Franks
Sr. Systems Administrator
Hauptman Woodward Institute