RE: Cfengine stucked on ifconfig

[Lionel Ostric]

The problem is that I need the hard classes to be able to know if I'm
installing a solaris or a redhat machine ...
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rader@ginseng.hep.wisc.edu [mailto:rader@ginseng.hep.wisc.edu] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 7:45 AM
> To: Lionel Ostric
> Cc: help-cfengine@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Cfengine stucked on ifconfig 
> 
> 
>  >    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 ?
> 
> Try cfagent [...] -H
> 
> steve
> - - -
> systems & network manager
> high energy physics
> university of wisconsin
> 

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