Re: Cfengine Help: Re: duplicate selection of value error

2010-11-03 Thread Deb Heller
gine@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine -- Deb Heller-Evans1 Cyclotron Road Computer Systems Engineer Berkeley, CA 94720 ESnet http://www.es.net/ Desk: 510/495-2243 ___ Help-cfengine ma

Re: MAX_FD complaints

2010-11-08 Thread Deb Heller
ne@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine -- Deb Heller-Evans1 Cyclotron Road Computer Systems Engineer Berkeley, CA 94720 ESnet http://www.es.net/ Desk: 510/495-2243 ___ Help-cfengine mail

cf-report core dumps on FreeBSD

2010-12-01 Thread Deb Heller
All, I'm using Nova, latest release. However, this problem has been present for all versions I've seen. I had hoped the latest release might have fixed it, but no joy. cf-report core-dumps on all our FreeBSD hosts running Nova: Dec 1 10:18:44 washamp kernel: pid 48208 (cf-report), uid 0: ex

Re: 3.1.1 key exchange

2010-12-10 Thread Deb Heller
> { "143.207.0.0/16" }, > comment => "Access rules to the masterfiles"; > "/usr/sbin/cf-agent" > admit => { "${globalset.cfmaster}" }, > comm

Re: Cfengine Help: Re: Once more unto the code bridge: repository

2010-12-14 Thread Deb Heller
__ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine -- Deb Heller-Evans1 Cyclotron Road Computer Systems Engineer Berkeley, CA 94720 ESnet

Re: Cfengine Help: Re: Once more unto the code bridge: repository

2010-12-14 Thread Deb Heller
___ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine -- Deb Heller-Evans1 Cyclotron Road Computer Systems Engineer Berkeley, CA 94720 ESnet http://www.es.net/ Desk: 510/495-2243 _

Directing cfengine to an IP:Port (like bindtointerface?)

2010-12-15 Thread Deb Heller
I need, but it doesn't seem to have the ability to also assign a port. Ideas? deb -- Deb Heller-Evans1 Cyclotron Road Computer Systems Engineer Berkeley, CA 94720 ___ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://

Re: Cfengine Help: How to configure a client machine to contact the policy server and downloads updates?

2010-12-22 Thread Deb Heller
David, I gave an incomplete answer. So sorry. What I should add is that you need to install Cfengine on the client, just as you did initially on the policy server. Then use cf-key and use the bootstrap command I gave you in the last email. At the moment I'm not sure where this is in the docu

Re: Cfengine Help: How to configure a client machine to contact the policy server and downloads updates?

2010-12-22 Thread Deb Heller
I see Nick Anderson has responded with failsafe.cf and update.cf for your enjoyment. Have fun!! deb On 12/22/10 2:20 PM, Deb Heller wrote: > David, I gave an incomplete answer. So sorry. > > What I should add is that you need to install Cfengine on the client, > just as you did

Re: Cfengine Help: Re: Cfengine Help: How to configure a client machine to contact the policy server and downloads updates?

2010-12-23 Thread Deb Heller
So, couldn't you, at the command line on the client host, issue this command to initiate the key exchange? cf-agent -B -s policy_server (where "policy_server" is the hostname or IP address of the policy server) As long as the server trusts the client, the keys should be exchanged and you're go

Re: Cfengine Help: Re: Cfengine Help: How to configure a client machine to contact the policy server and downloads updates?

2010-12-23 Thread Deb Heller
Excellent, Nicolas! I want to run the community edition on systems not connected with our main network, and the nuances between that and Nova can be baffling. I found a section that says a little more about what you posted in the Cfengine 3 Concept Guide, Section 7.3.3 Key exchange: 7

Need a little regular expression help from my friends...

2011-01-04 Thread Deb Heller
Folks, I am not a programmer - wish that I were at this point. Regexes are the bane of my existence right now. I am attempting to update /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions on CentOS and RH linux boxes with the .cf-before-edit extension. In this way, start-up scripts like /etc/rc.d/init.d/networks wi

Re: Cfengine Help: Iptables and Cfengine

2011-01-04 Thread Deb Heller
Neil, I didn't want this query to the list go by without notice. Thanks for bringing up the topic of iptables. This is indeed a very crucial file to keep in sync with what's running in the kernel on production hosts. I hadn't seen the articles, so they're now on my list of important reads (al

Re: Cfengine Help: Re: Need a little regular expression help from my friends...

2011-01-05 Thread Deb Heller
Thanks, Jeang - It all seems so simple now... Tested and works! deb On 1/4/11 4:29 PM, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: > Forum: Cfengine Help > Subject: Re: Need a little regular expression help from my friends... > Author: phnakarin > Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,20020,200

lastseen not updating

2011-01-18 Thread Deb Heller
Found out this evening that my lastseen database has not updated since December! Can anyone point me to what I might need to do to get this working again? If I have to start my databases from scratch, that's okay. Thanks, deb ___ Help-cfengine mailin

Re: lastseen not updating

2011-01-18 Thread Deb Heller
/11 6:10 PM, Deb Heller wrote: > Found out this evening that my lastseen database has not updated since > December! Can anyone point me to what I might need to do to get this > working again? > > If I have to start my databases from scratch, that's okay.

Re: lastseen not updating

2011-01-19 Thread Deb Heller
Right, I'm using Nova (should've mentioned that, sorry). At the same time, I appreciate the discussion on the communtiy version of lastseen and cfengine. I've got a ticket open with Cfengine wrt MAX_FD errors raising its ugly head again. This is causing client authentication problems as well,

Re: Cfengine Help: Cfengine 3.1.3 is released - stability release

2011-01-20 Thread Deb Heller
YAY!! This is GOOD NEWS, indeed! Thanks for all the hard work! deb On 1/20/11 6:59 AM, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: > Forum: Cfengine Help > Subject: Cfengine 3.1.3 is released - stability release > Author: eystein > Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,20221,20221#msg-20221 > >

Re: Nagios Plugin Wrapper Module

2011-01-21 Thread Deb Heller
Just so that you know you're not along... This is something I've been considering for cfengine to do, but haven't had any cycles to do more than think about it. We're monitoring FreeBSD 7.3 and CentOS and Redhat Linux 5.x flavors... At the moment I have only moral support to offer you. :-) de

Forum help-cfengine management question

2011-01-21 Thread Deb Heller
I've tried logging into the forum with no success. The wizard says I have an account, so I "asked" for my password to be sent to me - I never received an email after waiting 24 hours. I've tried this a couple of times. I'd prefer to use the forum, but I can't. Could someone help me out please?

Re: Email notification of repairs

2010-02-08 Thread Deb Heller-Evans
s to scale well over hundreds of systems, without the necessity of email floods. Haven't yet coupled Nagios with Cfengine, but it's on my horizon. Kind Regards, deb Deb Heller-Evans 1 Cyclotron Road Computer Systems Engineer Berkeley, CA 94720 ESnet http://www.es.net

Re: Version control best practices?

2010-03-04 Thread Deb Heller-Evans
We're using a similar approach here with SVN, although we divvy the dir trees up between groups - Engineering and Systems Administration. I would like to pose a follow-on question to Jessica's: Using your favorite repository software (insert subversion, Bazaar, or whatever here), we would h

Re: tcpread help

2010-03-16 Thread Deb Heller-Evans
Elegant! Thanks for sharing! Kind Regards, deb ツ Deb Heller-Evans1 Cyclotron Road Computer Systems Engineer Berkeley, CA 94720 ESnet http://www.es.net/ Desk: 510/495-2243 On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:26:24 -0700, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > Dear Neil, > >

Nagios checks for cf-serverd

2010-08-20 Thread Deb Heller-Evans
Hi Guys, We use nagios to check port 5308 to make sure that cf-serverd is responding. However, each time that the port is checked, /var/log/messages records the probe: Aug 20 09:06:17 proserver cf-serverd[4356]: Not allowing connection from non-authorized IP 198.128.3.36 How can we allow

Re: Nagios checks for cf-serverd

2010-08-20 Thread Deb Heller-Evans
Yup. Talking to myself here... :-) I seem to have solved this by including the nagios probing hosts in the acl slist... If anyone has any better ideas, please let me know! On 8/20/10 9:56 AM, Deb Heller-Evans wrote: >Hi Guys, > > We use nagios to check port 5308 to make sur

Multi-homed clients and authentication

2010-08-20 Thread Deb Heller-Evans
Does anyone here have experience with multi-homed clients and authentication? I have a case whereby a client has two network interfaces, one is accesible as a management network interface, and one is not. For example, rainier-mgt.some.com - management, accessible via ssh; interface is NOT

MAX_FD complaints

2010-11-07 Thread Deb Heller-Evans
this complaint would be helpful... Thanks! -- Deb Heller-Evans1 Cyclotron Road Computer Systems Engineer Berkeley, CA 94720 ESnet http://www.es.net/ Desk: 510/495-2243 ___ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfe

Re: MAX_FD complaints

2010-11-07 Thread Deb Heller-Evans
Thanks! That helps. deb On 11/7/10 3:37 PM, Frans Lawaetz wrote: > As far as I know this is a bug with cf-execd where it does not release > file descriptors and eventually runs out of them. I have a weekly cron > job to restart cfengine3 services as a work around (non-ideal). > I haven't upgra

Re: Directing cfengine to an IP:Port (like bindtointerface?)

2010-12-16 Thread Deb Heller-Evans
The default port is 5308, not 5306, and you don't want to change it > unless you definitely have no choice (say, 5308 is completely occupied > in your infrastructure by bad coincidence). But, if you explicitly > want to, look at "port" option of control bodies. > > 2010/

Feature Request: Directing cfengine to an IP:Port (like bindtointerface?)

2010-12-16 Thread Deb Heller-Evans
ime for the feature request? > > 2010/12/16 Deb Heller-Evans: >> Thanks, Seve! Sorry, that was a typo on the port number. But, I think I >> didn't make my point very well. Let me try again. >> >> I am not wanting to change the port number. I need to direct communic

Re: Feature Request: Directing cfengine to an IP:Port (like bindtointerface?)

2010-12-16 Thread Deb Heller-Evans
nario to > make sure we understand > > M > > On 12/16/2010 04:03 PM, Deb Heller-Evans wrote: >> Seva, >> >> Yes, I think that's it. >> I wonder how hard it would be to add this functionality... >> >> deb >> >> On 12/16/10 6:53 AM, Sev

Re: Cfengine Help: How to configure a client machine to contact the policy server and downloads updates?

2010-12-22 Thread Deb Heller-Evans
I'm using the Nova version of Cfengine, but perhaps it's the same in the community version. When I want to add a client, I would bootstrap it to the policy server: cf-agent -B -s And they do a key exchange to enable a trust relationship. I believe it works the same way - go to Section 2.6 of