As a followup, I dug into the diffs in image.c between 2.1.20 and 2.1.21 (image.c appears to handle the copy: directive and the related backups). An important change between 2.1.20 and 2.1.21 appears to be this:
http://svn.iu.hio.no/viewcvs/trunk/src/image.c?rev=276&r1=239&r2=276 Suprise! It's an if() statement related to a backup list of some kind. I am by no means a cfengine developer, so I may be completely off base here, but it looks like the VREPOSLIST is a recently added feature (added in rev 233 as noted here: http://svn.iu.hio.no/viewcvs/trunk/src/image.c?rev=276&r1=233&r2=276) As shown with the context in the second link here, before revision 276, the backup (aka .cfsaved) was removed if the "repository" feature was enabled. Mark added the if() statement so that the .cfsaved file was only deleted if the copy to the repository was successful. However, the logic appears wrong (the pling should not be there). Mark seems to have caught it (based on the first diff link) but that fix did not make it into 2.1.21. I'll try removing the pling from line 1582 of image.c and see if that fixes the problem. -Paul Paul Krizak wrote: > I'm replying to this thread and CCing the help list because there has > been no response... > > I'm seeing this same issue with 2.1.21 -- the behavior is definitely > different than 2.1.20. This unexpected behavior is having unusual and > difficult to track down effects in our cluster at AMD, including Ralph's > mention of /etc/cron.*/... > > Any idea what's going on? Is there a patch? A workaround? Some simple > option that needs to be changed? > > I'd really rather not insert tidy: statements after every copy: > statement in our (enormous) cfengine configuration. > > -Paul > > > Ralph Angenendt wrote: >> Orion Poplawski wrote: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# ls nsswitch.conf* >>> nsswitch.conf nsswitch.conf.cfsaved >>> >>> It still copies it to /var/cfengine/saved/ though: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# ls /var/cfengine/saved/_etc_nsswitch.conf.cfsaved >>> /var/cfengine/saved/_etc_nsswitch.conf.cfsaved >> I'm seeing exactly the same behaviour on 2.1.21. Which is great in case >> of files unter /etc/cron.*/ ... >> >> Cheers, >> >> Ralph >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bug-cfengine mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cfengine > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > [email protected] > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine > _______________________________________________ Bug-cfengine mailing list [email protected] https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cfengine
