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salt command does not respect timeout parameter

See original GitHub issue

salt -vt1 '*' cmd.run 'sleep 50' does not result in “Minion did not return”.

Expected:

Executing job with jid 20140304202635840445
-------------------------------------------
some-minion:
Minion did not return

Actual:

Executing job with jid 20140304202635840445
-------------------------------------------
Execution is still running on ...
Execution is still running on ...
Execution is still running on ...
Execution is still running on ... 
[Ctrl+c] after ~ 10s

I noticed this because one of my minions was down and the command waited for it…

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Created 10 years ago
Comments:13 (7 by maintainers)

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basepicommented, Mar 5, 2014

This is a common misconception on what purpose the timeout serves.

The timeout is the time the master waits until it checks in with minions to see if they’re still running the job.

When that timeout expires, the master fires a find_job to all minions who have still not returned. A secondary timeout is then triggered which defines how long the master waits for the minions to respond to that find_job query. If they don’t respond within that secondary timeout, or return information that says the job is finished, then and only then will the master return “Minion did not return”.

Currently there is no “hard timeout” to force the master to stop listening after a certain amount of time.

Does that make sense?

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basepicommented, Jun 22, 2015

@alberts Could you give us more detail? There’s a lot of confusion around the timeout parameter. Read my first couple of comments above to make sure you’re on the same page.

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