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Re: action sequence ;)


From: Mark . Burgess
Subject: Re: action sequence ;)
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 04:25:18 +0100 (MET)

Maybe you don't have a search domain in your resolv conf? 
Or perhaps there is an nsswitch.conf issue? It ought to
work, but you could also use the IP of policy host directly.

M

On 16 Jan, Systems Administrator wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Patryk Dawidziuk wrote:
> 
>> Hi there. 
>> I have a strange problem with update.conf (in cf 2.1.0b5) . 
>> 
>> I did define actionsequence as follows:
>> 
>> actionsequence = ( resolve editfiles shellcommands copy tidy )
>> 
>> Correct me if I'm wrong, but it is not supposed to execute things in given 
>> order?
>> I mean at the beginning of all in my case, cfengine should ride over 
>> resolv.conf and fix it if there is a
>> problem, then edit files that I want him to, execute a command,  _then_ copy 
>> what I want and
>> at the end clean defined dirs? I'm asking, because it does not work in
>> my case. If I delete my resolv.conf or put enything in it f.e. DNS that
>> does not work, it says:
>> 
>> Looking for an input file ./update.conf
>> cf:cfengine::./update.conf:56: DNS lookup failure. Unknown host 
>> 
>> I know it could not find a host, as I said before, I put garbage in
>> resolv.conf. 
>> I removed 'resolve' from actionsequence and put simple statement that
>> edited my resolv.conf in editfiles, but it did not work either. 
>> 
>> Here's my update.conf I surely miss something obvious.
> 
>       Here's how I think it works:
> 1.    cfengine runs
> 2.    cfengine realises that it needs to update its settings from 
>       policyhost
> 3.    cfengine tries to find policyhost
> 4.    Resolver doesn't work, so cfengine *can't find policy host*.  
> 
>       The resolver has to work at least enough so that cfengine can pull 
> down new config.  
> 
>       There may be some option that lets cfengine run without updating 
> its config, but then what's the point?  
> 
>       I hope this helps :).  
> 



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