On 11/09/2010 05:46 AM, Seva Gluschenko wrote: > No, definitely. A file isn't installed in place of older one until > it's copied succefully. >
Seva, that's what has me so alarmed. Like you and Neil pointed out, I can take steps to minimize the odds of cf-serverd getting terminated while engaged with clients but I see that as risk reduction to what is otherwise a very severe bug. It does nothing to account for user error, network glitches, or master host failures (assuming, again, that cf-agent was thrown by the sudden termination of cf-serverd). *somehow* cf-agent modified my limits.conf file, ran into a problem (as reported), and gave up, leaving me with a bricked system. I agree that with copy-on-write, hashes, etc, this should be an impossibility but I can only go by the sequence of events I initially posted. I will try to reproduce in lab although I think this will be very hard to do. cf-serverd (3.0.5) used to segfault on me regularly and while it made clients complain it never resulted in actual damage. Cheers, Frans _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
