Re: Strange error message in cfengine 3.1.2

2011-01-18 Thread Mark Burgess
Thanks for the update. I'll look at this as soon as I can. On 01/17/2011 12:37 PM, Erik Mouw wrote: > On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:44, Mark Burgess wrote: > >> >> Well that's good news. My guess is perhaps some bianry characters crept >> into the code somewhere triggering a response from parser. > >

Re: Strange error message in cfengine 3.1.2

2011-01-17 Thread Erik Mouw
On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:44, Mark Burgess wrote: > > Well that's good news. My guess is perhaps some bianry characters crept > into the code somewhere triggering a response from parser. Hi Mark, I haven't been looking, so in the real tradition of a Heisenbug the bug is back. I have checked for b

Cfengine Help: Re: Strange error message in cfengine 3.1.2

2011-01-13 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: Strange error message in cfengine 3.1.2 Author: neilhwatson Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,20095,20103#msg-20103 I think I've seen this previously. I don't recall the exact details but I think the problem was that the variable i

Re: Strange error message in cfengine 3.1.2

2011-01-13 Thread Mark Burgess
Well that's good news. My guess is perhaps some bianry characters crept into the code somewhere triggering a response from parser. On 01/13/2011 12:23 PM, Erik Mouw wrote: > On Jan 13, 2011, at 10:57, Mark Burgess wrote: >> Erik, can you try show us exactly what command results in this message. >

Re: Strange error message in cfengine 3.1.2

2011-01-13 Thread Erik Mouw
On Jan 13, 2011, at 10:57, Mark Burgess wrote: > Erik, can you try show us exactly what command results in this message. > I don't get anything like this when I run your example through Cfengine. I'd love to Mark, but it looks like I encountered a Heisenbug: once I started running 'cf-agent -v' by

Re: Strange error message in cfengine 3.1.2

2011-01-13 Thread Mark Burgess
Erik, can you try show us exactly what command results in this message. I don't get anything like this when I run your example through Cfengine. M On 01/13/2011 10:38 AM, Erik Mouw wrote: > On Jan 13, 2011, at 10:35, Eystein Måløy Stenberg wrote: > > Hi Eystein, > >> In any case this is a bug

Re: Strange error message in cfengine 3.1.2

2011-01-13 Thread Erik Mouw
On Jan 13, 2011, at 10:35, Eystein Måløy Stenberg wrote: Hi Eystein, > In any case this is a bug (it should never print non-printable chars). > Please retry with Cfengine 3.1.2 (if you are on an older version), as I > believe it has already been fixed.. This -is- with Cfengine 3.1.2, so whateve

Re: Strange error message in cfengine 3.1.2

2011-01-13 Thread Eystein Måløy Stenberg
Hey, In any case this is a bug (it should never print non-printable chars). Please retry with Cfengine 3.1.2 (if you are on an older version), as I believe it has already been fixed.. -- Regards Eystein On 01/13/2011 10:04 AM, Erik Mouw wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm writing a promise to keep a names

Strange error message in cfengine 3.1.2

2011-01-13 Thread Erik Mouw
Hi all, I'm writing a promise to keep a nameserver and a locking daemon for a CAD package running as a specific user, and on one RHEL3 64 bit machine (yes I know, no longer supported by Red Hat, but we need it for legacy designs) I get the following errors: Validation: Error reading assumed integ