Package: cfengine3
Version: 3.0.5+dfsg-1
Severity: important
I tried to follow chapter 3 of the Cfengine3 Concept Guide
(<http://www.cfengine.org/manuals/cf3-tutorial.html#First-promises>) and
immediately ran into trouble:
$ rm -rf ~/.cfagent
$ /usr/sbin/cf-key
Fatal cfengine error: !!! No access to workspace
Wow. This is quite a disappointing first impression from a new user's
perspective. :-)
The reason turns out to be a missing input directory, as suggested in
<http://serverfault.com/questions/174549/cfengine-no-access-to-workspace>:
$ find ~/.cfagent
/home/bengen/.cfagent
/home/bengen/.cfagent/reports
/home/bengen/.cfagent/outputs
/home/bengen/.cfagent/lastseen
/home/bengen/.cfagent/bin
Creating this directory by hand fixes the situation for me:
$ mkdir ~/.cfagent/inputs
$ /usr/sbin/cf-key
Making a key pair for cfengine, please wait, this could take a minute...
But why has the input directory not been created along with those other
directories? I noticed that this behavior is introduced by the Debian
package because the following two lines in src/generic_agent.c have been
commented out by debian/patches/fhs-compliance:
snprintf(vbuff,CF_BUFSIZE,"%s%cinputs%cupdate.conf",CFWORKDIR,FILE_SEPARATOR,FILE_SEPARATOR);
MakeParentDirectory(vbuff,force);
I believe I understand the intention for disabling this particular
MakeParentDirectory() call: The global 'input' directory is supposed to
be a symlink to /etc/cfengine3, not a directory. But I don't see what
actual problem is being solved here. At the first time a (privileged)
user can run cf-* commands, the package will already have created that
symlink. And as far as I have observed,the MakeParentDirectory() code
doesn't do any harm if that symlink already exists.
Please consider removing this part of the fhs-compliance patch.
Thanks,
-Hilko
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages cfengine3 depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libdb4.8 4.8.30-2 Berkeley v4.8 Database Libraries [
ii libpcre3 8.02-1.1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8o-2 SSL shared libraries
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cfengine3 suggests no packages.
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