Using 3.1.4 community on CentOS 5.5. I'm writing a bundle to maintain the set of "server" lines in "/etc/ntp.conf". The cleanest way seems to be for that bundle to delete the lines and re-insert them. Almost invariably the result should be identical (no change) and so cfengine3 will detect this and correctly skip taking any action.
But sometimes it fails inexplicably. It is random, intermittent; I cannot generate it at will; it "just happens". The "delete_lines" gets obeyed, but the "insert_lines" seems not to happen, so it generates an unwanted change, deleting but failing to re-insert those lines. Ouch. (A subsequent run will then successfully do both the delete and the insert and will restore the file to what it had been (and to how it should have stayed as permanently). Since this time on Friday (three days ago) it has generated 14 unwanted "break and later repair" incidents, even though the cfengine3 config was completely static. Any clues? (Note: whether or not this really is the cleanest way to do achieve this maintenance of "ntp.conf" is a different issue, and one which would take us back to a recent conversation about a CPAN-like collection of commonly needed things, written in a "best practice" way. But that is a different issue from this random, intermittent, failure. I suggest that we stay on this failure in this thread, and not get sidetracked onto the CPAN/best-practice question.) If this is a known bug, that's OK; just let me known its status, please. -- : David Lee : ECMWF (Data Handling System) : Shinfield Park : Reading RG2 9AX : Berkshire : : tel: +44-118-9499 362 : email: david....@ecmwf.int _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
