Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Best way to gracefully stop cfengine daemons?
Author: eystein
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18065,18078#msg-18078
Yes, SIGTERM (15 on Linux) be caught by all Cfengine components and will clean
up (close DB handles, etc).
--Eystein
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Subject: Re: Problem with network set up
Author: gurkensalat
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18067,18079#msg-18079
I followed Neils tutorial. I copied all the files in the same direction like
described in the tutorial except the crontabs.cf because I don'
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Problem with network set up
Author: gurkensalat
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18067,18080#msg-18080
Hi,
finally I could make it work, they are connecting each other. I wrote a script,
that copies some files from the masterfiles-directory t
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: manage NFS share without /etc/fstab
Author: Igor
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18082,18082#msg-18082
Hi!
How i can disable looking into /etc/fstab in "storage mount"? When i created
promise like this:
#
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: cf-agent crashes - invalid pointer
Author: nima
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18084,18084#msg-18084
The crash
template:~# cf-agent -Kvvv
cf3 Cfengine - autonomous configuration engine - commence self-diagnostic
prelude
cf3
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: cf-serverd stops working after a day
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18083,18085#msg-18085
Is there anything interesting in the server logs? What about the agent run
logs? You could try running the server is verbose mode
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: cf-agent crashes - invalid pointer
Author: eystein
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18084,18086#msg-18086
Yes, a stack backtrace.
Run cf-agent from gdb and give the output from "back" in gdb.
You should create a bug report for this instead of
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: cfruncommand not really working
Author: gurkensalat
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18087,18087#msg-18087
Hi,
I wanted to start the cf-agent via cf-runagent from the server.
On my host I have the cf-server started. In the cfserverd.cf there is a
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: cfruncommand not really working
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18087,18088#msg-18088
Security concerns prevent things like '&&' and '||' from working. I know I
wrote that and it did work at one point but now such command
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: cfruncommand not really working
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18087,18089#msg-18089
FYI
https://cfengine.com/bugtracker/view.php?id=194
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Subject: Re: cfruncommand not really working
Author: gurkensalat
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18087,18090#msg-18090
Thanks for your fast reply.
Is there a way to solve the problem? My cf-agent first has to update all new cf
files and then execute them.
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: cfruncommand not really working
Author: Seva Gluschenko
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18087,18091#msg-18091
I rose the same question few days ago. The current workaround seems to be
creating the script and execute it in cfruncommand call.
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: cfruncommand not really working
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18087,18092#msg-18092
You can wait for the next run or use a wrapper script. Be careful with the
wrapper script because the agent may expect arguments that a
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: cfruncommand not really working
Author: gurkensalat
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18087,18093#msg-18093
I doesn't work this way. I updates the new cf files, but it can't execute them,
because it is too quick, if I put the update and execute
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: cfruncommand not really working
Author: gurkensalat
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18087,18094#msg-18094
Okay, I got a solution: If new cf files arrive from the repository I will first
run cf-agent via cf-runagent to upgrade the new cf files
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: cfruncommand not really working
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18087,18095#msg-18095
Since you asked ;) I'm not certain that your methodology is efficient and it
certainly does not seem very Cfengine like to me. Why are
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Where is the source code?
Author: filbranden
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18096,18096#msg-18096
Hello,
I have been trying to find about a bug I have on one machine running cfengine
3.0.4, I am trying to find out if it was already fixed in 3.0
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Where is the source code?
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18096,18097#msg-18097
Do you mean this? http://www.cfengine.org/pages/source_code and this
http://www.cfengine.org/pages/develop
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Subject: Re: cfruncommand not really working
Author: gurkensalat
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18087,18098#msg-18098
The fact is, that cfexecd only works with a time interval. But I want the
cf-agent execution to be dependent of new cf files arriving fr
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Where is the source code?
Author: filbranden
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18096,18099#msg-18099
Yes, I do mean that, thank you!!!
I believe you should add links to this page:
http://www.cfengine.org/pages/software
I see they are available
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: cfruncommand not really working
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18087,18100#msg-18100
The executor can run at 5 minute intervals. It seems like a lot of extra work
for you to gain just 3 minutes less.
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Subject: Re: cfruncommand not really working
Author: gurkensalat
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18087,18101#msg-18101
That's right. Then I have to run two daemons. The cron checking the repository
and the cf-execd.
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Subject: Re: cfruncommand not really working
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18087,18102#msg-18102
Why can't Cf check the repo? The agent can run a svn up command. If there is
an update then assign a class. Other promises are examin
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Is transaction logging Nova only?
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18103,18103#msg-18103
Is transaction logging a Nova only feature? The reference in unclear.
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Subject: cf-monitord memory usage
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18104,18104#msg-18104
Has anyone been looking at the memory usage of cf-monitord with C3.0.5p1? Over
a few days of running I've seen it climb to 112MB resident. It app
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: cf-monitord memory usage
Author: Igor
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18104,18105#msg-18105
I have cd-monitord started about a month. Same results:
129M 49880K nanslp 1 4:42 0.00% cf-monitord
129M 125M nanslp 1 4:44 0.00% cf-monitord
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: cfruncommand not really working
Author: zzamboni
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18087,18106#msg-18106
Another option would be to have a cron on the server that checks out the svn
repo as frequently as you want onto the directories served by
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Questions about the reference manual
Author: mwlarsen
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18107,18107#msg-18107
I'm having some difficulty with terminology used in section 1 of the reference
manual. I think it would behoove me to grasp section 1 befo
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Questions about the reference manual
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18107,18109#msg-18109
A promise is not procedural. It is a general statement that Cfengine will try
to keep. For instance 'promise that file /etc/ssh/s
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Cfengine Help: Re: cf-monitord memory usage
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18108,18110#msg-18110
The process I'm watching is running on Linux Red Hat 5 64bit. Since my first
post the memory has climbed to 113MB.
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Subject: Re: Questions about the reference manual
Author: zzamboni
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18107,18112#msg-18112
Hi,
Promise bodies:
The body of a promise is simply the details about the promise, and it consists
of parameter => value pairs (also
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Cfengine Help: Re: Best way to gracefully stop cfengine daemons?
Author: msvob...@linkedin.com
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18070,18113#msg-18113
I have verify => true set in my remote_copy copy_from promise.
body copy_from remote_copy(sou
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Cfengine Help: Re: Best way to gracefully stop cfengine daemons?
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18070,18114#msg-18114
I use recursive copies and purging for inputs and I've never had problem. Can
create a portable test c
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Cfengine Help: Re: Best way to gracefully stop cfengine daemons?
Author: zzamboni
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18070,18115#msg-18115
Do you have the corresponding output from cf-serverd -v? That usually gives
more insight into what problem
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Cfengine Help: Re: cf-monitord memory usage
Author: eystein
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18108,18116#msg-18116
The best way to check whether the problem persists, as usual, is to build the
latest svn trunk.
If you are still having issues (
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: execresult will look for binaries even though bundle is not included
Author: filbranden
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18117,18117#msg-18117
Hi,
I have several bundles and some of them use "execresult" in vars: section to
look up system compone
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: execresult will look for binaries even though bundle is not
included
Author: zzamboni
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18117,18119#msg-18119
I can duplicate this behavior, using 3.0.5p1 community on Win7 under cygwin. I
also agree that ideall
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: cf-agent crashes - invalid pointer
Author: nima
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18084,18121#msg-18121
Hi Eystein,
I've filed a bug report as you have suggested, along with the gdb backtrace:
https://cfengine.com/bugtracker/view.php?id=220
N
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: execresult will look for binaries even though bundle is not
included
Author: Seva Gluschenko
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18117,18124#msg-18124
Following up the Diego's explanation (which is clear enough itself), I can just
suggest also l
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Cfengine Help: Re: Best way to gracefully stop cfengine daemons?
Author: Nicolas Charles
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18070,18125#msg-18125
Hi,
Which version of Cfengine are you using ? I used to have from time to time
encryption error wh
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: cfruncommand not really working
Author: gurkensalat
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18087,18126#msg-18126
okay, thanks a lot guys! I will try your suggestions.
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Subject: Re: Cfengine Help: Re: cf-monitord memory usage
Author: Igor
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18108,18127#msg-18127
one and two: freebsd 7.1-p11 i386
last two: freebsd 7.2-p7 i386
I can kill processe by kill -3.
Note, that i dont use cf-monitord
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Subject: Re: Questions about the reference manual
Author: mwlarsen
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18107,18129#msg-18129
neilhwatson Wrote:
---
> A promise is not procedural. It is a general
> statement
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Subject: Re: Questions about the reference manual
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18107,18132#msg-18132
The toughest thing for me about learning Cfengine was to accept that it is not
a scripting or programming language. You do not con
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: execresult will look for binaries even though bundle is not
included
Author: filbranden
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18117,18133#msg-18133
Hi guys,
Thanks for the explanations.
Yes, evaluating the variables in bundles that are not includ
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Questions about the reference manual
Author: mwlarsen
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18107,18134#msg-18134
Thanks for your reply, Diego. I'm having trouble with this explanation and was
hoping you could break it down a little more.
zzambon
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Interactive key trust no permenant
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18135,18135#msg-18135
# cf-runagent -iIH arcdev01
WARNING - You do not have a public key from host arcdev01 = 10.129.148.11
Do you want to accept one
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Questions about the reference manual
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18107,18136#msg-18136
1. depth_search => urecurse("inf");
2.
3. body depth_search urecurse(d)
4. {
5. depth => "${d}";
6. exclude_dirs => { "\.svn", "\.
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Cfengine syntax highlighting using Pygments
Author: zzamboni
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18139,18139#msg-18139
Hi,
I have written a cfengine lexer for Pygments, a very nice and very popular
open-source syntax-highlighting program. It behaves
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: need help with restart_class; the example from the manual does not
work (3.0.5p1)
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18140,18144#msg-18144
The promise "ntpd" is very vague. I would be more specific. This is a regex.
# servi
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: How can I install via cfengine on a remote host?
Author: gurkensalat
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18145,18145#msg-18145
Hi,
I'm running cygwin on Win XP. Is there a way to install software on a remote
host? Is there a script for that? Or do I
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: How can I install via cfengine on a remote host?
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18145,18146#msg-18146
Cfengine has some built in features for package management. My experience is
limited to the Linux package managers Yum
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: How can I install via cfengine on a remote host?
Author: gurkensalat
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18145,18147#msg-18147
Thanks for your reply. I've found two pages:
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/398
http://webcache.googleus
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: How can I install via cfengine on a remote host?
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18145,18148#msg-18148
Be careful. Both those links a referring to Cfengine version 2.
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Subject: Re: How can I install via cfengine on a remote host?
Author: xeon22
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18145,18149#msg-18149
I have implemented a solution for just that using cf-engine to kick off the
wpkg script. Cf3 manages the configs by updatin
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: How can I install via cfengine on a remote host?
Author: eystein
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18145,18150#msg-18150
Nova comes with native package management for all Windows platforms, using
.msi-files and packages-promises.
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Regards,
E
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: disk space monitoring
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18152,18152#msg-18152
$ cat diskspace.cf
##
body common control {
bundlesequence => { "test" };
inputs => { "cfengine_stdlib.cf" };
}
bundle co
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: disk space monitoring
Author: zzamboni
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18152,18153#msg-18153
Looking at the code, this seems like a bug to me. From src/verify_storage.c, in
the IsForeignFileSystem() function (line 374):
if (childstat->st_dev
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: disk space monitoring
Author: mark
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18152,18154#msg-18154
Not quite sure what you are suggesting. If you use xdev, then that is the
correct behaviour. I think it's a question of semantics, and the error message
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: disk space monitoring
Author: zzamboni
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18152,18155#msg-18155
I think it all depends on your interpretation of "foreign". To me, this means
"mounted from a remote system". This is also what the documentation say
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: disk space monitoring
Author: zzamboni
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18152,18156#msg-18156
By the way, I agree that "no crossing filesystems" is the most commonly
available option, and that is fine with me. However:
1. In this case the nam
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Subject: Re: disk space monitoring
Author: mark
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18152,18157#msg-18157
Ok, let it all out, but remember to register a bug report ;-)
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Subject: Sending in Bug Reports
Author: nima
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18159,18159#msg-18159
Hi,
As I've been hitting quite a number of crashes in cf3, I've written a little
script to aid in generating bug reports.
I want to know what other inform
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Sending in Bug Reports
Author: nima
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18159,18160#msg-18160
I haven't managed to capture the output of the glibc dump unfortunately,
despite redirection of the parent shell's file descriptors, a fix on that would
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: How can I install via cfengine on a remote host?
Author: gurkensalat
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18145,18162#msg-18162
neilhwatson Wrote:
---
> Be careful. Both those links are referring
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Sending in Bug Reports
Author: eystein
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18159,18163#msg-18163
Nice!
When debugging a segfault, a (gdb) backtrace of the crash is often the most
useful.
Sometimes -v or -d2 output leading to the crash is nice too
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: need help with restart_class; the example from the manual does not
work (3.0.5p1)
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18140,18164#msg-18164
Aleksey, you might get a better understanding of the process table during the
run if
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Subject: Handles vs Classes - Scope Intersection
Author: nima
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18170,18170#msg-18170
Are we free to do the following:
bundle agent Client {
files:
linux::
"$(sys.workdir)/inputs/."
han
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Subject: cf-promises crashes
Author: nima
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18171,18171#msg-18171
Here's my configs:
cf-agent.cf
cf-serverd.cf
promises.cf
And here''s the backtrace (in case you're interested) for running:
cf-promises -v
(gdb) back
#0
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Subject: Re: Handles vs Classes - Scope Intersection
Author: Seva Gluschenko
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18170,18172#msg-18172
Your question is quite complex and requires certain clarifications before any
advices can be given. Anyway,
[*] Handles are
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Subject: Re: cf-promises crashes
Author: Seva Gluschenko
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18171,18173#msg-18173
On the first sight, there's a lot of invalid variables expansions, like this:
default_repository => "${path.cache}"; # must be $(path.ca
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: cf-promises crashes
Author: nima
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18171,18174#msg-18174
Hi Seva,
1. I've used ${} and $() interchangeably, and in cf2 at least, it was valid
syntax, and there's nothing in the manual to say otherwise, however,
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Handles vs Classes - Scope Intersection
Author: nima
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18170,18175#msg-18175
Okay, to simplify, here's what I've done:
failsafe.cf is now as follows:
body common control {
version => "1.1.0";
bundleseque
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Subject: Re: cf-promises crashes
Author: nima
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18171,18176#msg-18176
Err, here are the files again - censored of profanity this time :]
lib-core.cf
lib-conf.cf
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Subject: Re: cf-promises crashes
Author: Seva Gluschenko
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18171,18177#msg-18177
Well, files look okay in general (besides ${} which I'm not sure of). Since
crash happens in bundle server access_rules most probably, I'd sugge
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Handles vs Classes - Scope Intersection
Author: Seva Gluschenko
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18170,18178#msg-18178
>From this output, it's hard to find why failsafe.cf produces segfault, at
>least nothing is shown about the segfault. I'd s
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Persistent classes
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18183,18187#msg-18187
I think you want to change the class strcmp to a command action instead. Then
define the class as repaired or not.
http://www.cfengine.org/manuals/c
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Subject: Re: managing mobile clients
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18189,18193#msg-18193
http://www.cfengine.org/manuals/cf3-reference.html#dynamicaddresses-in-server
might also help. The NAT aspect is definitely tricky.
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Subject: Re: managing mobile clients
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18189,18195#msg-18195
You could tunnel over VPN since you would control the end point IP.
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Subject: lastseen db not updating
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18198,18198#msg-18198
This morning my lastseen report (c3.0.5p1) showed that all clients had not
checked in for a least 40 hours. The clients are running, I can run the
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Questions about the reference manual
Author: mwlarsen
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18107,18199#msg-18199
neilhwatson Wrote:
---
> > 1. depth_search => urecurse("inf");
> 2.
> 3. body dept
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Subject: Re: Questions about the reference manual
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18107,18201#msg-18201
mwlarsen Wrote:
> > > 1. depth_search => urecurse("inf");
> > 2.
> > 3. body depth_search urecurse(d)
> > 4. {
> > 5. depth => "${d
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Persistent classes
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18183,18203#msg-18203
Forget all about classes and persistence for a moment. What are you trying to
accomplish above that?
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Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Persistent classes
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18183,18206#msg-18206
Persistence for the sake of it. I can't argue that. Perhaps attempt the wget
command, and upon failure set a persistent class. However, I can't se
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Questions about the reference manual
Author: mwlarsen
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18107,18209#msg-18209
neilhwatson Wrote:
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> I don't see anything with a '->'.
There isn't anything
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: managing mobile clients
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18189,18210#msg-18210
Hi Max,
Indeed this seems like more of a security policy question. Any remote client
that could be stolen probably should not have data stored
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Questions about the reference manual
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18107,18211#msg-18211
In my opinion all sysadmins should have some basic programming theory. If you
are writing shell scripts and perl code without the
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Persistent classes
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18183,18213#msg-18213
You can set a different ifelapsed for any promise you like.
body action if_elapsed(x)
{
ifelapsed => "$(x)";
expireafter => "$(x)";
}
http://www.cfe
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: multiple cycles to impliment a change.
Author: daveseff
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,17971,18217#msg-18217
Actually, Thanks to Mark Burgess and team's visit, We figured out this was
missing from my cf-execd.cf inside "body executor control
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Populating slist from an execresult
Author: nbianchi
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18222,18222#msg-18222
We grabbed the HPC configuration example from the solutions guide and we're
using it as a base for assuring that sevices that are chkconfig
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Populating slist from an execresult
Author: Seva Gluschenko
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18222,18223#msg-18223
Nicola,
the truth is, execresult returns a string. You need splitstring() call to
produce an slist from a string.
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Populating slist from an execresult
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18222,18224#msg-18224
Nicola,
I typically keep a list of services in the policy and run them against
chkconfig. You can tell by the return value if the
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Populating slist from an execresult
Author: howardk
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18222,18225#msg-18225
After a little head banging here is the result:
Needed to changed the sed delimiters to # instead of / (don't know why), then
the string
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Questions about the reference manual
Author: mwlarsen
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18107,18226#msg-18226
neilhwatson Wrote:
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> In my opinion all sysadmins should have some basic
> progr
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Cfengine Help: Re: Questions about the reference manual
Author: mwlarsen
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18215,18227#msg-18227
Thanks Mike.
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Subject: Re: Cfengine Help: Re: Questions about the reference manual
Author: mwlarsen
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18218,18228#msg-18228
Daniel V. Klein Wrote:
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> > There isn't anything with that s
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Cfengine2 and diskless cluster
Author: rpoyner
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18229,18229#msg-18229
I have a couple of small clusters (~20 nodes each) that I manage, that I'd like
to add to my cfengine2 setup. I've hesitated because I was unsure
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Cfengine2 and diskless cluster
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18229,18230#msg-18230
What about managing the export at the source rather than the client?
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Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Logic headache
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18232,18232#msg-18232
I'm having a calculus flashback. Shouldn't these two classes be equivalent?
1. !(Sunday.Morning.dev_env.phost)
2. !Sunday.!Morning.!dev_env.!phost
Further
Forum: Cfengine Help
Subject: Re: Logic headache
Author: Seva Gluschenko
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18232,18233#msg-18233
Neil,
first two expressions aren't exactly equivalent.
!Sunday.!Morning.!dev_env.!phost is equal to !(Sunday|Morning|dev_env|phost).
Last expressio
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