Cisco Headend System Release 2.7 Guía De Instalación

 

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In order to correct some issues associated with the Pass-Through process on the 
DNCS, some sites have been regularly bouncing this process through scripts that 
reside in the crontab file. SR 2.8.2/3.8.2/4.3.2 contains software that corrects issues 
associated with the Pass-Through process. Therefore, after the upgrade, you should 
remove any entries in the crontab file that reference scripts that bounce the Pass-
Through process. The instructions in this section guide you through the process of 
removing these references. 

Notes: 

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Bouncing a process refers to stopping and then restarting that process. 

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The scripts that Cisco wrote to bounce the Pass-Through process are called 
elop.sh and bouncePassThru. 

 

1  If necessary, open an xterm window on the DNCS. 
2  Follow these instructions to check on the presence of scripts in the crontab file 

that bounce the Pass-Through process. 
a  Type the following command and press Enter. The system lists the line(s) 

within the crontab file that contain elop.ksh. 

b  Type the following command and press Enter. The system lists the line(s) 

within the crontab file that contain bouncePassThru. 

3  Did the output of step 2 contain any references to the elop.sh or the 

bouncePassThru scripts? 

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If yes, go to step 4 to remove those references. 

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If no, go to the next procedure in this chapter. 
Note:  You do not have to remove any references to the scripts from the 
crontab file. 

4  Type the following command and press Enter. The system redirects the contents 

of the crontab into dncs.crontab. 

Note:  While you can edit the crontab directly, we recommend that you first 
redirect the contents of the crontab to dncs.crontab so you can recover the 
original crontab if necessary.