Re: OS X cfengine

[Brendan Strejcek]

Brendan Strejcek wrote:

> I'm getting output like this when I try to run "cfagent -q -K -v -B":
> 
>     Checking copy from server:/path to /path
>     Connect to server = XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX, port =5308
>     Found address (XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX) for host server
>     Updating last-seen time for server
>     cfengine:: Couldn't lookup IP address
>     cfengine:: gethostbyaddr: Unknown error: 0
>     cfengine:: Id-authentication for client failed
>     cfengine:: Unable to establish connection with server (failover)

These problems ended up being specific to a particular client. I'm still
not sure what the issues was, but it is not happening on other machines.

The Darwinports install worked fine. For the list, this is how I set up
cfengine on a Mac running OS X (10.3).

Assuming you already have Xcode installed, this will work:

    ftp http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/downloads/DarwinPorts-1.0.dmg
    hdiutil attach ./DarwinPorts-1.0.dmg
    cd /Volumes/DarwinPorts1.0
    installer -pkg DarwinPorts.mpkg -target / # Can use -verbose option
    cd /; umount /Volumes/DarwinPorts1.0
    export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin
    port install cfengine
    # Create /opt/local/var/cfengine/ppkeys/root-${CFSERVD_IP}.pub
    # Create /opt/local/var/cfengine/inputs/update.conf
    ln -s /opt/local/var/cfengine /var/cfengine
    cp /opt/local/sbin/cfagent /var/cfengine/bin
    echo /opt/local/sbin/cfexecd >>/etc/rc.local
    chmod 755 /etc/rc.local
    /opt/local/sbin/cfexecd