On 06/21/2012 08:07 AM, Riccardo Murri wrote: > Hi Ted, > "cf_promises_validated" seems to contain the date of the last > successful validation, so maybe this one instead?
I was under the impression that it worked like this. When policy has changed and then been successfully validated /var/cfengine/masterfiles/cf_promises_validated is updated. Previously just touched, as of 3.3 it contains the date time stamp of the validation. This helps if remote agents clocks get skewed. On a 3.3.0 system if I remove /var/cfengine/masterfiles/cf_promises_validated then run cf-agent -K the file is re-created with a new date time stamp. If I run cf-agent -K again there is no change. It only seems to be updated if policy changes in /var/cfengine/inputs. For example I add a blank line to promises.cf and run cf-agent -K and the date time stamp in /var/cfengine/masterfiles/cf_promises_validated gets updated. Perhaps I have missed something in the policy that does some of that but I thought cf_promises_validated being updated was internal to CFEngine and was independent of the policy. Remote agents updating based on the "newness" of cf_promises_validated is of course policy dependent. _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
