Skip to main content

Comet Backup

competitions
  • Edited

comet_license_registration_sync fires every second via a cron job:

CROND[24132]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/comet_license_registration_sync >/dev/null 2>&1)

I don't have Comet.

It's not listed as an option in WHM.
It's not listed as an additional backup destination: WHM → Backup → Additional Destinations

So why is there a cron firing every second and is it necessary to be so frequent?*

This cron should only exist if Comet is installed. 
Request it be removed. Else can we remove the cron or will it just reappear in the next cPanel update?

* discovered the cron when investigating why monitoring service reported an outage and was checking logs for a reason (not that I think comet caused it - at least I hope not, just a nuisance to see so many comet entries).

Comments

7 comments

Date Votes
  • cPRex Jurassic Moderator

    Hey there!  I did reach out to the team about this issue but at this time they don't plan to make any changes to the cron.

    I believe the cron will be reinstalled the next time there is an update, so I don't have any good recommendations for you other than to ignore these particular log entries.

    As far as the why behind it, I've created two separate cases to see if I can get some traction with the development team:

    CPANEL-56599 - Presence of cpanel-comet-backup-plugin confuses cPanel users
    CPANEL-56598 - comet_license_sync cron runs on servers without Comet installed

    I've linked this thread to both of those cases and I'll be sure to post if I hear more on my end.

    0
  • competitions

    Thank you.

    I can understand one licence check each time a product is used, but see no logic for 86400 cron jobs a day, which is excessive for a product not in use or in existence.

     

    0
  • cPRex Jurassic Moderator

    Like I mentioned, you shouldn't be seeing it every second unless the cron has been modified, but every minute still sounded excessive to me.  If I hear anything on those cases I'll be sure to post!

    0
  • cPRex Jurassic Moderator

    Update - I see we have fixed case CPANEL-56598 with two specific changes:

    -the license check will only run when a Comet installation is detected
    and
    -the license check will be reduced to hourly.

    If things go well, it looks like the plan is actually to get rid of the hourly check and just use a systemd notification, but I haven't confirmed exactly when that may happen.

    Some good news, so I wanted to share!

    0
  • Wilberforce LaMotta
    • Edited

    cpanel/scripts/comet_license_registration_sync

    WE don't even USE Comet, you rammed this down our throats !

    ONCE PER MINUTE ?

    REALLY?

    WHEN IS THIS GOING TO BE FIXED !

    YOUR BS 60x per hour PROCESS IS PREVENTING MY BACKUPS FORM RUNNING !

    please, GET IT TOGETHER, people !

    0
  • cPRex Jurassic Moderator

    Update - we have a fix in place and I believe it's going to be released later today.  I'll post an update once I know more!

    0
  • Wilberforce LaMotta

    THANK you cPRex !   I sure do hope that it's a fix and that it's coming soon...

    0

Please sign in to leave a comment.

Didn't find what you were looking for?

New post