Can you prove that Cfengine corrupted the file? And can you show us the
result of the corruption?
Without this, the speculations about bugs in Cfengine are merely
speculations.
M
On 11/09/2010 09:24 PM, Frans Lawaetz wrote:
> So you are quite right that there is more to the story. I dug around in
> my bundles and found that there was overlap with respect to this file.
> A generic "centos_5" promise included update of limits.conf whereas
> further down in the bundle I had a more specific class
> "centos_5.special_hosts" which brought in a different limits.conf. This
> means that with each cf-agent run the file was updated back and forth.
>
> The above explains greater probability of this bug (assuming there is
> one) snaring limits.conf. Were it not for this flip-flop of the file,
> cf-agent would have matched the hashes and not attempted an update.
> That written it is still problematic that cf-agent was able to corrupt a
> file. Either limits.conf (the generic or more targeted) would have been
> fine but instead the file went missing.
>
> The last promise is below. It's just a simple file copy as was the
> prior promise.
>
> "/etc/security/limits.conf"
> copy_from =>
> mycopy("${g.masterfiles}/farm/etc/security/limits.conf.crdwga","${g.phost}"),
> perms => m("755");
>
>
> Frans
>
>
>
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