On 30/08/2011 19:21, Nick Anderson wrote: > On 08/30/2011 12:20 PM, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: >> Forum: CFEngine Help >> Subject: Re: CFEngine Help: Re: CFEngine Help: Re: Understanding CF's log >> Author: marc >> Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23272,23280#msg-23280 >> >> If cf-agent runs into a syntax error preventing it from running. Would it >> not go to failsafe? > Perhaps I missed something, but I don't think thats what I have observed > in the past. > > If there is a problem in the promises.cf (or its dependencies), CFEngine will revert to failsafe.cf The failsafe.cf is usually called in the executor prior running the promises to ensure that the latest promises are downloaded, and then the agent is run with the latest downloaded version, without changing any file during the run (the update promises would be locked, so won't be executed by the cf-agent)
At least that's the way I see it Regards Nicolas _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
