Nevermind...NIS was fubar on the machine, and I guess Solaris has an unhealthy obsession with NIS services...
Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B200.3A MTS Systems Engineer Austin, TX 78735 Advanced Micro Devices Desk: (512) 602-8775 Linux/Unix Systems Engineering Cell: (512) 791-0686 Global IT Infrastructure Fax: (512) 602-0468 On 06/23/2011 09:11 AM, Paul Krizak wrote: > When starting up cfagent on one of our Solaris 10 x86 systems: > > bash-3.00# /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent -vqIK > <wait for a while, then ctrl-c> > ^C: Received signal 2 (SIGINT) while doing [pre-lock-state] > : Logical start time Thu Jan 1 05:30:00 1970 > : This sub-task started really at Thu Jan 1 05:30:00 1970 > > bash-3.00# date > Thursday, June 23, 2011 9:40:34 PM IST > > Why would cfagent think the date is the epoch, even though the system > clearly has the right date? > > And why would such an anomaly cause cfagent to fail to run? > > Note this is cfengine 2.1.21... > _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine