Re: cfagent works, but auth fails if run via cfexecd

[Jeff Sheltren]

Do you get the same results when running cfexecd in daemon mode (ie. not
using crontab)?

Seems like the problem may be that one connection is hanging (or
something) and you are trying to connect again from the same host.  You
can verify this by watching the cfserv process on the server...

-Jeff

On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 10:21, Frank Smith wrote:
> For what its worth, I see the same problem (currently using 2.0.8p1
> but it existed on prior versions).
>    With cfexecd running hourly from cron on about 130 hosts, I get
> 10 - 20 'authentication failed' messages a day. The hosts involved
> a mostly random but some seem more likely to fail than others.
>    Not a big enough issue for me try to debug (which is difficult
> since it always works whenever I run cfagent manually), but it is
> slightly annoying.
> 
> Frank
> 
> --On Monday, October 20, 2003 09:35:40 -0700 jgenus@bigelow.org wrote:
> 
> > Kurt,
> > 
> > Did you ever get this resolved? I'm having the same problem w/ 2.1.0b5....
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > James
> > 
> > 
> > Kurt Lieber <klieber@gentoo.org> wrote in message 
> > news:<mailman.1209.1065482414.21628.help-cfengine@gnu.org>...
> >> Using cfengine 2.0.8p1, I have an odd problem where cfagent, when run via
> >>  
> >> cfexecd, fails with the following error message (sent via email):
> >> 
> >> cfengine:clientmachine: Challenge response from server www.myserver.com/192
> >> .168.1.1 was incorrect!
> >> cfengine:clientmachine: Authentication dialogue with www.myserver.com 
> >> failed
> >> 
> >> Sometimes, that message repeats twice in the email, other times it's just
> >> once.  It does not appear to be consistent.  This same problem occurs
> >> across multiple hosts.
> >> 
> >> If I run cfagent -v manually, using the same configuration files,
> >> everything completes successfully with no mention of the word "fail"
> >> anywhere in the output.
> >> 
> >> I'm stumped -- any clues?
> >> 
> >> --kurt
> >> 
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