Re: Strange behavioural differences when invoking cfengine through cfrun

[Eric Dorland]

On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 07:50 +0100, Mark Burgess wrote:
> I am not sure that I have ever received this patch, or recall the
> problem, but I shall look into it now. Next cfengine release will be
> beginning of April (not the 1st!)

Great! Let me know if you need help testing. 

> On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 14:26 -0600, rader@ginseng.hep.wisc.edu wrote:
> > This appears to be the bug I described to the bug-cfengine@gnu.org
> > list a few weeks ago.  Refer to
> > 
> >  Subject: cfpclose() or "packages: under cfrun only" bug on RHEL3?
> >  Subject: fix for a bug in cfservd v2.1.11 
> > 
> > A patch that shows up the problem...
> > 
> >  cfrun somehost -- -qv | grep SRDEBUG
> > 
> > and a patch that fixes the problem follow.
> > 
> > Mark has not mentioned if he's going to fix this problem.  (I sure
> > hope he does--as is, packages and processes actions via cfrun do
> > not work on RHEL3 with cfengine 2.1.11 or better!)
> > 
> > steve 
> > - - - 
> > systems & network manager
> > high energy physics
> > university of wisconsin
> > 
> >  > ---- Original Message ----
> >  > From: Eric Dorland
> >  > Hello,
> >  > 
> >  > I'm attempting to roll out cfengine to a bunch of our servers (and more
> >  > to come). I'm finally grokking everything, but I've run into one last
> >  > problem I can't seem to solve. I've got a setup with all my master files
> >  > are in a CVS repository. Cfagent pulls the files out of cvs whenever it
> >  > updates. I also have a script to run cfrun everytime I commit something
> >  > to the CVS repo. 
> >  > 
> >  > My problem is that cfagent is behaving differently when invoked from
> >  > cfrun than it's periodic runs from cfexecd. The periodic runs through
> >  > cfexecd work great. When I invoke cfrun however, the "packages" target
> >  > doesn't work. I have cfengine check to see if the ntp package is
> >  > installed. If it isn't it installs it using up2date. I know the ntp
> >  > package is installed, but whenever I invoke cfagent through cfrun the
> >  > packages target says it's not installed. When run through cfexecd
> >  > everything works as expected.
> >  > 
> >  > I hope that was clear. I'm running the latest 2.1.13 on RHEL3. Has
> >  > anyone seen a similar problem? (Googling didn't come up with anything
> >  > similar). Let me know any debugging output I could provide that would be
> >  > helpful. Thanks.
> >  > 
> >  > -- 
> >  > Eric Dorland
> >  > eric.dorland@mcgill.ca
> >  > WSG
> >  > 514.398-5023 ext. 09562
> >  > 
> >  > 
> >  > 
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> > 
> > 
> > --- popen.c.orig        2005-02-22 15:10:40.000000000 -0600
> > +++ popen.c     2005-02-24 16:33:51.000000000 -0600
> > @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
> >     FILE *pp = NULL;
> >  
> >   Debug("cfpopen(%s)\n",command);
> > +Verbose("SRDEBUG: cfpopen(%s)\n",command);
> >  
> >   if ((*type != 'r' && *type != 'w') || (type[1] != '\0'))
> >      {
> > @@ -632,6 +633,7 @@
> >     {
> >     if (errno != EINTR)
> >        {
> > +Verbose("SRDEBUG: cfpclose() failed: %s\n",strerror(errno)); 
> >        return -1;
> >        }
> >     }
> > 
> > 
> > --- popen.c.orig        2005-02-22 15:10:40.000000000 -0600
> > +++ popen.c     2005-02-24 16:46:46.000000000 -0600
> > @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
> >     FILE *pp = NULL;
> >  
> >   Debug("cfpopen(%s)\n",command);
> > +Verbose("SRDEBUG: cfpopen(%s)\n",command);
> >  
> >   if ((*type != 'r' && *type != 'w') || (type[1] != '\0'))
> >      {
> > @@ -75,6 +76,9 @@
> >      {
> >      return NULL;
> >      }
> > +
> > +/* HERE SR restoring default sig handler for SIGCHLD HERE */
> > +signal(SIGCHLD,SIG_DFL);
> >   
> >   if (pid == 0)
> >      {
> > @@ -632,6 +636,7 @@
> >     {
> >     if (errno != EINTR)
> >        {
> > +Verbose("SRDEBUG: cfpclose() failed: %s\n",strerror(errno)); 
> >        return -1;
> >        }
> >     }
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> 

-- 
Eric Dorland
eric.dorland@mcgill.ca
WSG
514.398-5023 ext. 09562