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Re: Problems with cfexecd and parse errors


From: Mark . Burgess
Subject: Re: Problems with cfexecd and parse errors
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:33:09 +0200 (MEST)

Seems like you need to upgrade to a recent version.

M

On 26 Mar, Douglas Reitmeier wrote:
> This was seen with 2.0.8p1 on Solaris 8.
> 
> We had an issue where 19 of approximately 600 hosts failed to transfer a new 
> file, stopped with an empty file cf.foo.cfnew, that is imported in 
> cfagent.conf. This caused these systems to fail to parse cfagent.conf 
> correctly. Running cfagent again clears the issue once the update section 
> runs.
> 
> The issues is that we run cfexecd from cron to control cfengine. Cfexed 
> starts up by doing a cfagent -z. Since the file is not parse able this fails 
> and cfexecd stops. This means that it never runs cfagent, so the update can 
> fix the issue. This means that all systems with the parse error must be fixed 
> by hand instead of using cfengine to fix the issue.
> 
> Is there a way to have cfexecd not need the cfagent -z? One alternative is to 
> run cfagent directly from cron instead of using cfexecd, but that loses the 
> reporting benefits of cfexecd. Does nay one else have any other ideas on how 
> to do this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Doug Reitmeier
> 
> 
> 
> Douglas J. Reitmeier                                                       
> United Defense L.P.
> Project Manager                                                             
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