Bogus file content on copies

[Ferguson, Steve]

Now that I'm working with a sufficiently large number of machines in
cfengine, I'm noticing some occasional odd failures.  The one I'm seeing
most frequently is bogus file content when a file is copied.  Here's an
example:

root@myhost:inputs# more cfservd.conf
t 2048BAD: Host authentication failed. Did you forget the domain name?

What causes this to happen and how can I prevent it?  If there's a failure
condition, I'd expect the previous file not to get replaced, but in this
case the old file is getting replaced with content like that shown above.

Thanks,
Steve

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Steve Ferguson
gedas USA, Inc.
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