[Fusioninventory-user] 2.1.7 agent on OS X 10.6

[Walid nouh]

Hello Tom,

First of all sorry for the late answer.
I've added a ticket on our forge not to forget. 
http://forge.fusioninventory.org/issues/548

Can you come, if it's possible for you, on our IRC channel to discuss 
this issue ? (#fusioninventory on irc.freenode.net).

Thanks a lot for this message, and we really need to check what should 
be the right way to do.

Walid.

On 22/12/2010 16:23, Tom Carpenter wrote:
> I downloaded and installed the prebuilt fusioninventory-agent 2.1.7 
> for OS X
>
> http://prebuilt.fusioninventory.org/stable/macosx-intel/fusioninventory-agent_macosx-intel_2.1.7-2.pkg.tar.gz 
>
>
>
> "agent.cfg" provided in that package uses the following defaults
>
> daemon=1
>
> AND
>
> daemon-no-fork=0
>
> Looking at the text of Daemon.pm (Proc::Daemon) it appears as though the
> settings in "agent.cfg" would cause fusioninventory-agent to fork. 
> When run
> with the default settings (above) in "agent.cfg" it looks like 
> fusioninventory-agent
> may violate launchd's restrictions (launchd.plist(5))
>
> http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man5/launchd.plist.5.html#//apple_ref/doc/man/5/launchd.plist 
>
>
> A daemon or agent launched by launchd MUST NOT do the following in the 
> process directly launched by
> launchd:
>
> • Call daemon(3).
> • Do the moral equivalent of daemon(3) by calling fork(2) and have the 
> parent process exit(3)
> or _exit(2).
>
>
> Perhaps it doesn't matter if it does, I'm just trying to develop a better
> understanding of fusioninventory-agent and launchd before deploying
> the agent.
>
>
> - Tom Carpenter
>
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