[et-mgmt-tools] Cobbler reposync cron script

[Adrian Revill]

Yes feel free to add it.

I tried the change to use "cobbler list repo" and it works fine.


Michael DeHaan wrote:
> 
> Adrian Revill wrote:
>> Just in case anyone needs a script to run cobbler reposync from cron, 
>> here is one i have written. It runs each repo in turn, and gives each 
>> a number of tries (10) to over come problems with failing syncs.
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>>
>> TRIES=10 # number of times to try and run reposync
>> LOGFILE="/var/log/cobbler/cobbler_reposync.log"
>>
>> function running {
>>        PID=$(ps ax| awk '/cobbler reposync/ && !/awk/ {print ($1)}')
>>        if [ -z $PID ]
>>        then
>>                log "cobbler reposync is not running"
>>                return 1
>>        fi
>>        log "cobbler reposync is running PID=$PID"
>>        return 0
>> }
>>
>> function log {
>>        logger -t "COBBLER_REPOSYNC" -- $1
>> }
>>
>> function run {
>>        try=1
>>        ret=1
>>        while [ $try -le $TRIES ]
>>        do
>>                running
>>                ok=$?
>>                if [ $ok -eq 0 ]
>>                then
>>                        log "Already running, aborting"
>>                        break
>>                fi
>>                log "Attempt $try for $1"
>>                cobbler reposync --only=$1 2>&1 >> $LOGFILE
>>                ret=$?
>>                if [ $ret -eq 0 ]
>>                then
>>                        break
>>                fi
>>                log "Attempt $try failed"
>>                try=$[ $try + 1 ]
>>        done
>>        if [ $ret -eq 0 ]
>>        then
>>                log "Compleated $1"
>>        else
>>                log "Too many trys or already running, giving up on $1"
>>
>>        fi
>> }
>>
>> log "Starting"
>> mv $LOGFILE $LOGFILE.1
>>
>> for name in $(awk '/name:/ {print($2)}' /var/lib/cobbler/repos)
>> do
>>        run $name
>> done
>>
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> 
> Nice!  Do you mind if I put this in a 'contrib' directory in cobbler's 
> version control so other people can find it later?
> 
> We can mention this on the Wiki too.
> 
> One small change I'd make is to make the last awk line run 'cobbler repo 
> list' instead of grepping the file, that way
> it works regardless of the storage backend -- though everyone pretty 
> much uses the stock one.
> 
> --Michael
> 
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