Re: syncing files....

[John Gray]

Erza (who works for me) and I just got Will's script to work with classes.

When we tested it appeared to hang on us, but it was just busy 
downloading pkgs.

That brought up an idea.  If would nice to be able to give it different 
options will its being run via cfrun opposed to cfservd.  We'd like to 
see what's going on when we invoke via cfrun (so we know why its taking 
so long).

Is there a way to figure out how the cfengine script was invoked from 
within the script?

John

Will Lowe wrote:

> > And note that some packages will not install correctly as long as
> > cfagent doesn't have a console, for example proftpd and
> > emacs. Unfortunately, some installs use < /dev/tty, sigh. Oh, and
> > some packages still use shell read,
> >    
>
> Yeah.  I would file wishlist bugs against those packages requesting
> that they use debconf instead.  That won't help in the short term
> (before the next release) unfortunately.
>
> In the short term you could probably adapt my script to use debwrap
> pretty easily.  I haven't tried, but I think you could just set
> $ENV{QANDA_DIR} or $ENV{QANDA_FILE} and throw "debwrap" on the front
> of the system() call.
>
> apt-get install debwrap && man 8 debwrap for more.
>
>  


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