RE: file distribution bug?

[Martin, Jason H]

There's nothing wrong with that stanza, although I'd suggest creating
some class to determine whether the copy should be attempted.

-Jason Martin

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> [mailto:help-cfengine-bounces+jason.h.martin=cingular.com@gnu.
> org] On Behalf Of John SJ Anderson
> Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 3:27 AM
> To: help-cfengine@gnu.org
> Subject: file distribution bug?
> 
> 
> 
>   I have a possible file distribution bug, I think. CfEngine version
>   2.0.7p3, running in a Slackware-based Linux environment, 
> distributing
>   files from a single master to around 600 hosts.
> 
>   I have one particular file (a load balancer config file) that has a
>   very odd distribution pattern: it may or may not be present 
> on a host,
>   but if it is present, it's going to be different than any other host
>   in the network.
> 
>   Rather than spell out an individual copy stanza for each host, I did
>   this:
> 
> any::
>   $(master)/path/to/file/$(host)
>      dest=/path/to/file
>      type=checksum
>      backup=true
>      server=$(policyhost)
> 
>   And then I have the files for the individual hosts in the 
> appropriate
>   directory named 'host1', 'host2', etc. If a host isn't supposed to
>   have this file, there's no file in the appropriate directory. 
> 
>   This has been working out fine -- there are a lot of warnings
>   generated in the log, when cfserv tries to stat() a file 
> that doesn't
>   exist, but I can live with that. However, there have been a 
> couple of
>   instances recently where a host that shouldn't get a file 
> _has_ ended
>   up with a file: one that contains part of a cfengine error message
>   (the "can't resolve name" one) followed by a chunk of 
> binary garbage.
> 
>   Clearly, my first step is to upgrade the clients and the server to a
>   more recent CfEngine release -- recommendations on an appropriately
>   stable version are welcome. Assuming that doesn't fix the 
> problem, how
>   should I go about troubleshooting this? Is this because of 
> the idiom I
>   used to write the copy stanza? Is there a better way to do 
> that (other
>   than spelling out individual stanzas for each host?)
> 
>   Thanks for any help.
> 
> cheers,
> john.
> -- 
> John S J Anderson, Ph.D.         [ Contractor ]     +1.301.402.7499
> Chief Penguin Herder & Linux Team Lead, Systems Group, 
> NCBI/NLM/NIH I think you are asking the wrong question here.
>   Mark Jason Dominus's Good Advice #11931
> 
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