Re: [Cfengine] Importing Paths into Cfengine Environment

[Bas van der Vlies]

Brian E. Seppanen wrote:
> Periodically I find it necessary to install packages via 
> shellcommands on debian hosts.   When I do so I get the following errors.
>
> /bin/dpkg --co: dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH.
> /bin/dpkg --co: dpkg: `start-stop-daemon' not found on PATH
> /bin/dpkg --co: dpkg: `install-info' not found on PATH
> /bin/dpkg --co: dpkg: `update-rc.d' not found on PATH
> /bin/dpkg --co: dpkg: 4 expected program(s) not found on PATH.
>
> I understand that cfengine is cleaning out the ENVIRONMENT and requiring 
> absolute pathnames for security purposes.    Unfortunately in package 
> installations the paths are coming from the package and not from cfengine, 
> is there any way that I can tell cfengine what those paths should be so 
> that when a package install is done from cfengine I don't get these 
> errors?   
Which version do you use? On my debian system i had problems with 2.1.11 
  (Could not install packages with apt-get/cfrun combo) and switched 
back to the 2.1.10 cfengine debian version.

        Regards