Re: [Cfengine] cfrun remote script. -f is stripped

[Bas van der Vlies]

To my knowledge this is a security issue and you can never specifiy a 
file with cfrun. It starts cfagent or a wrapper script. You can parse
the arguments in the wrapper scripts and then start cfagent with right
file. But a better "cfengine" solution is to define a class:

cfagent.conf:
  import:
     !CFAPT::
         normal_run.cf
     CFAPT:
         cfapt.cf

Now on the server:
   cfrun -f cfrun.hosts -- -DCFAPT


Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:

> Dear Guru,
>
> I've got the same problem as the guy before but who never got a reply so
> I couldn't find answer to my question and decided to bother you
>
> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/help-cfengine/2003-08/msg00006.html
>
> The same I have here: I've created a cfengine script which supposed to
> run install_packages from FAI any time I add another new package to the
> list of packages in FAI configuration to be installed on all machines.
> So I don't really want it to be a part of default cfagent.conf but
> rather want to run it whenever I want. So I create some script
> cfapt.conf which I can run locally as 
> cfagent -f cfapt.conf
> and it works.
>
> But if I try to run it from main machine through cfrun I give command like
> cfrun -- -f cfapt.conf
> then  output shows that either cfrun or cfservd strips out -f and just
> calls cfrun ... cfapt.conf  
>
> Before I post any long -d2 or -d1 which didn't bring me newbie to the
> ground-truth I want to ask you - may be I'm doing something totally wrong
> and it shouldn't be done this way at all...
>
> Thank you in advance for all hints
>
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