Re: sigpipes on solaris 8, reprise...

[Mark Burgess]

Denying repeated connections means that you need to add your host to

AddMultipleConnectionsFrom = ( )

Mark

On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 16:04 +0100, Marco Marongiu wrote:
> Hello everybody
> 
> First of all, I would like to thank those that replied "offline" to my 
> previous post and tried to help me solving the problem. Unfortunately, 
> nothing has changed here :-(((((
> 
> Summing up, this is what happens.
> 
> I compiled cfengine 2.1.13 (and also tried a CVS snapshot) with both gcc 
> 3.4.2 and 3.0.4, against libpcre 5.0, OpenSSL and Berkeley db 4.3.27 and 
> 3.2.9+patches, on Solaris 8:
> 
> # uname -a
> SunOS web-pre-se 5.8 Generic_117350-18 sun4u sparc SUNW,Serverblade1
> 
> The application sigpipes and dies when it does a remote copy operation, 
> with the message:
> 
> > *********************************************************************
> >  Main Tree Sched: copy pass 1 @ Thu Mar 10 15:41:29 2005
> > *********************************************************************
> > 
> > Checking copy from ims-pre-se:/var/cfengine/repository/config/ntp.conf to 
> > /etc/inet/ntp.conf
> > Connect to ims-pre-se = 10.39.17.16, port =5308
> > Updating last-seen time for ims-pre-se
> > Loaded /var/cfengine/ppkeys/root-10.39.17.16.pub
> > cfengine:web-pre-se: Received signal 13 (SIGPIPE) while doing 
> > [no_active_lock]
> > cfengine:web-pre-se: Logical start time Thu Mar 10 15:41:29 2005
> > cfengine:web-pre-se: This sub-task started really at Thu Mar 10 15:41:29 
> > 2005
> 
> An output of truss -o /tmp/cfagent.truss -f /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent is 
> attached.
> 
> Besides, trying to see if I could solve the problem, I spotted a problem 
> pattern.
> 
> If I do these, something happens (well, half of something).
> 
> 1) stop "everything cf" running on both the policy host and client:
>      pkill cf
> 
> 2) remove the cf_lastseen.db on both the policy host and client:
>      rm /var/cfengine/cf_lastseen.db
> 
> 3) run cfagent on the policy host and let all the needed services come up
>      /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent -v
> 
> 4) run cfagent on the client:
>      /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent -v | tee /tmp/cfagent.log
> 
> the copy from update.conf works, the copy from cfagent.conf and all 
> subsequent attempts to run a copy from cfagent die.
> 
> If you run cfagent again this is what you see on the server side in the 
> /var/adm/messages:
> 
> > Mar 10 16:00:10 ims-pre-se cfservd[19111]: [ID 823470 daemon.error]  
> > Denying repeated connection from ::ffff:10.39.17.40
> 
> So it looks like the policy host closes the connection while the client 
> tries to read or write to it, and cfagent dies sigpipe...
> 
> Can anybody help?
> 
> Ciao and thanks
> --Marco
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