Re: cfexecd doesn't run?

[Luke A. Kanies]

On Mon, 17 May 2004, Predrag Zecevic - Solaris System Administrator wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> i have cfengine 2.1.6 succsessfully compiled on Solaris 9 (SPARC), but I have 
> strange problem:
>
> when I want to run it (from cron, with command cfexecd --no-fork) it doesn't 
> run at all (cfagent runs well).
> Using earlier versions of cfengine I used to see messages in 
> /var/adm/messages, but now:
> ---<output>------------------------------------------------------
> May 17 10:35:35 sunrise :sunrise[9536]: [ID 823470 user.error]  Couldn't run
> May 17 10:35:35 sunrise :sunrise[9536]: [ID 801721 user.error]  execv: Bad 
> file number
> May 17 10:35:35 sunrise :sunrise[9537]: [ID 823470 user.error]  Couldn't run
> May 17 10:35:35 sunrise :sunrise[9537]: [ID 801721 user.error]  execv: Bad 
> file number
> ---</output>------------------------------------------------------

$10 says that you don't have cfagent in /var/cfengine/bin, which is where 
cfexecd expects to find it.  Add the following to your update.conf:

links:
  /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent -> /usr/local/bin/cfagent

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