How to disable cf-serverd

[Peter Wood]

On a CentOS5 system I have CFEngine2 and CFEngine3.6.3. Both are clients type installations bootstrapped to two different masters each.

I'd like to disable cf-serverd so it will not fight with cfservd  for the port.

In /etc/sysconfig/cfengine3 I have:

  RUN_CF_SERVERD=0

In /var/cfengine/inputs/controls/cf_serverd.cf I added:

  listen => "false";

During boot cf-serverd still starts. After the system is up and running then the init script starts ignoring cf-serverd, i.e. "service cfengine3 stop" will not stop cf-serverd and the start option will not start cf-serverd.

What could be the reason for cf-serverd to start at boot time only?

Thanks,

-- Peter

[Nick Anderson]

On 12/18/2014 03:58 PM, Peter Wood wrote:
> What could be the reason for cf-serverd to start at boot time only?

I believe the init script starts the services directly, it doesnt run
the agent. That would be my first guess.

[Nick Anderson]

On 12/18/2014 03:58 PM, Peter Wood wrote:

> What could be the reason for cf-serverd to start at boot time only?

[Neil Watson]

You should do it the other way, use cf-serverd and disable cfservd.
Change the boot order so that cfservd starts first then cf-serverd will
error out, because the port is taken. Better, configure cfserver3 init
script to not start cf-serverd.

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[Nick Anderson]

On 12/18/2014 04:04 PM, Nick Anderson wrote:
> I believe the init script starts the services directly, it doesnt run
> the agent. That would be my first guess.

Oh ignore that.

[Peter Wood]

Changing the boot order or changing the init script will work with various level of effort in my case but why do I have to do that. Seems that the config options are in place to do what I need and I was hoping that I'm just not doing it right.

Why is RUN_CF_SERVERD=0 ignored at boot time?

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[Peter Wood]

I was wrong. cf-serverd doesn't start at boot. Cf-agent starts it. I'm looking into why and how to disable it.

[Nick Anderson]

On 12/18/2014 04:42 PM, Peter Wood wrote:
> I was wrong. cf-serverd doesn't start at boot. Cf-agent starts it. I'm
> looking into why and how to disable it.

Try these

https://github.com/cfengine/masterfiles/blob/master/update/update_processes.cf#L37

and

https://github.com/cfengine/masterfiles/blob/master/update/update_processes.cf#L41-45

[Peter Wood]

Removing it from agents_to_be_anabled list worked. Thanks, Nick.