Re: Permission to reconfigure netmask denied

[Mark . Burgess]

On 12 Dec, Alan Sparks wrote:
> A cfengine (1.6.0a3) running on a Solaris 2.7 machine... I have a line
> in the configuration like:
> 
> interfaces:
>         "hme0"  netmask=255.255.255.0 broadcast=ones
> 
> The cfengine run yields the following result:
> 
> Found netmask: 255.255.255.192
> cfengine:email21: The netmask is incorrectly configured, resetting...
> Found broadcast address: 208.169.17.191
> cfengine:email21: Broadcast address was 208.169.17.191 (should be
> bit-type one) Resetting interface...
> cfengine:email21: Permission to reconfigure netmask denied.
> cfengine:email21: ioctl: Bad address
> Trying to set broad to 208.169.17.255 = 208.169.17.255
> cfengine:email21: Permission to reconfigure broadcast denied.
> cfengine:email21: ioctl: Bad address
> 
> Is there a problem with cfengine?  Why can't it reset the netmask?  It's
> running as root.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> -Alan
> 

For some undiscernable reason, this stopped working as of solaris
2.6, and on a coujple of other platforms too. I do not yet know how to
diagnose or fix this, so please ignore this for now and work around....

M

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