Re: Cfengine stucked on ifconfig

[Mark Burgess]

You could try changing cfpopen to cfpopen_sh("ifconfig -a < /dev/null)
to see if that works.

M

On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 01:25 +0000, Lionel Ostric wrote:
> All,
> 
>       I know that this problem has already been discussed but I was
> unable to find any solution to it.
> 
>       I'm running cfagent 2.1.16 from the %post section of a kickstart
> installation on a Redhat Enterprise Linux update 6 (Kernel 2.4.21 and
> glibc 2.3) on an x86.
> 
>       cfagent starts and the it gets stuck on the 'Trying to locate my
> IPV6 address'....(I'm not using IPv6) and a ps -edf will show a defunct
> ifconfig. I enabled debug using the following command line 'cfagent -v
> -dddd -f myconfigfile.conf' and the last thing it does is
> 'cfpopen("ifconfig -a") ... The strange thing is the same command
> launched manually from another console in this kickstart session will
> give you the right information ... and running cfagent manually will
> work.
> 
>       I absolutely need to do that in kickstart to automate the
> installation of my machines...
> 
>       Does anyone have a solution ?
> 
> Lionel
> 
> -- IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are 
> confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended 
> recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the 
> contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the 
> information in any medium.  Thank you.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Help-cfengine mailing list
> Help-cfengine@gnu.org
> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine