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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
> M248
> douglas.reitmeier@udlp.com 4800
> East River Rd
> Phone: 763-572-6644
> Fridley, MN 55421
>
> F: 763-572-6133
>
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