Re: cfenvd droppings in /var/cfengine

[Matt Armstrong]

"Luke A. Kanies" <luke@madstop.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I've got one host out of about 10 (in my limited roll-out) whose cfenvd
> process appears to be creating many files in /var/cfengine:
>
> kaniela@krypton(0) $ ls /var/cfengine/cf_*
> /var/cfengine/cf_incoming.cfengine
> /var/cfengine/cf_incoming.cfengine.cfsaved
> /var/cfengine/cf_incoming.ftp

[...]

> /var/cfengine/cf_outgoing.www
> /var/cfengine/cf_outgoing.www.cfsaved
>
> I've tried removing them, restarting cfenvd, everything I can think
> of, and they come right back.

Why remove them?  I assumed they are part of the regular operation of
of cfenvd.

> I also get a syslog message very five minutes letting me know that
> they have all been edited.

What generates this message?  Can you filter it?  Syslog doesn't
normally send mail.


-- 
matt