Re: NetworkManager-dispatcher killing my scripts

[Jeff Sadowski <jeff sadowski gmail com>]

Is there any way to have it launch maybe another script that can take
as long as it needs?
I thought putting the script in the background would allow it to run
till finished but it is still getting killed.

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 09:35 -0600, Jeff Sadowski wrote:
> > I created a simple script to show my problem.
> > <-------start of /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/99-test script
> > test()
> > {
> > x=0
> > while [ ${x} -lt 25 ];do
> > sleep 1
> > echo ${x} > /tmp/test
> > let x=${x}+1
> > done
> > }
> > test &
> > <------end of script
> >
> > the script gets killed after 8 seconds ie:
> > > cat /tmp/test
> > 8
> > >
> >
> > I don't see any error messages in /var/log/message pertaining to it.
> >
> > Is there a way to get my script to not get killed?
> > Maybe a way to externally call my script using dispatcher?
>
> Scripts actually get 3 seconds to complete.  They aren't currently
> expected to run for long, especially on network disconnection, because
> the network is already gone.  You can run the dispatcher with debug mode
> like:
>
> /usr/libexec/nm-dispatcher.action --debug --persist
>
> The daemon currently doesn't block waiting on scripts, but there have
> been discussions to make it do so.  Which would make this problem even
> more acute, since network changes could block on long-running scripts.
>
> Dan