[launchd-dev] Stray Proccess Log message

[Dave Zarzycki]

On Feb 22, 2008, at 8:42 AM, Geoff Franks wrote:

> 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?

Yes, please.

http://bugreport.apple.com/

davez