Re: the need for cf-serverd on CF3 clients

2012-04-30 Thread Nick Anderson
On 04/30/2012 10:54 AM, Abid Khwaja wrote: > Thanks for the clarification. I tested by commenting out the cf-serverd > lines in failsafe and cf-serverd did not start. My understanding from the > CF3 Reference Manual was that failsafe is read only if the main policy files > cannot be read/parse

Re: the need for cf-serverd on CF3 clients

2012-04-30 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Abid Khwaja wrote: > > My understanding from the CF3 Reference Manual was that failsafe is read only > if the main policy files cannot be read/parsed. Hi, Abid. That is the purpose of failsafe.cf, you are correct. However, in version 3.2.1 (I haven't played wit

Re: the need for cf-serverd on CF3 clients

2012-04-30 Thread Abid Khwaja
On Apr 30, 2012, at 3:19 PM, Nick Anderson wrote: > As far as how to stop it from happening I suspect that cf-serverd is > being started during your update/failsafe. Look in your body executor > control. What is the exec_command? I suspect its something like > "$(sys.cf_twin) -f failsafe.cf && $(s

Re: the need for cf-serverd on CF3 clients

2012-04-30 Thread Nick Anderson
On 04/30/2012 12:58 AM, Abid Khwaja wrote: > I have a client CF3 host (cfengine 3.2.3) that is running the policy below. > When I run "cf-execd --no-fork”, I see that 2 additional processes are > started: cf-monitord & cf-serverd. Shouldn’t cf-serverd only run the the > CF3 master host? Ther

the need for cf-serverd on CF3 clients

2012-04-29 Thread Abid Khwaja
I have a client CF3 host (cfengine 3.2.3) that is running the policy below. When I run "cf-execd --no-fork”, I see that 2 additional processes are started: cf-monitord & cf-serverd. Shouldn’t cf-serverd only run the the CF3 master host? There is nothing in this policy that would tell the cli