Chris, thanks. If you put this back does it solve any of the issues
you were having?
Chris Ward wrote:
>
> Turns out there was some code that was removed from cfservd.c in version
> 2.2.10, and possibly prior to that version. Adding the following to
> cfservd.c returns the ability to turn LastSeen off from within
> cfservd.conf:
>
>
> l321:
>
> if (OptionIs(CONTEXTID,"LastSeen",false))
> {
> LASTSEEN = false;
> }
>
>
> l1840:
>
> if (LASTSEEN)
> {
> LastSeen(dns_assert,cf_accept);
> }
>
>
> ~/src/cfengine-2.2.10/src$ diff cfservd.c cfservd.c.lastseen.fixed
> 320a321,325
>> if (OptionIs(CONTEXTID,"LastSeen",false))
>> {
>> LASTSEEN = false;
>> }
>>
> 1835c1840,1846
> < LastSeen(dns_assert,cf_accept);
> ---
>> if (LASTSEEN)
>> {
>> LastSeen(dns_assert,cf_accept);
>> }
>>
>> /* LastSeen(dns_assert,cf_accept); */
>>
>
>
>
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Chris Ward wrote:
>
>>
>> I've been able to verify that version 2.2.10 of cfservd does not honor
>> the
>> LastSeen setting. I've tested this out against both libdb-4.2 and
>> libdb-4.6. What happens is that with LastSeen set to 'off' (or 'false')
>> the cfservd process will create a lastseen db file per client that
>> connects, ex. cf_LastSeen.db.host.domain.com. More context is provided
>> below from a prior email.
>>
>> I'm not sure when exactly this bug was introduced, but v2.1.20 of cfservd
>> works as expected. That is, if you set LastSeen to 'false' then
>> v2.1.20 of
>> cfservd will not create a lastseen database file for each client that
>> connects to the server. Maybe LastSeen was omitted as being a valid
>> option
>> in cfservd.conf sometime after 2.1.20?
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:04:42 -0700
>> From: Chris Ward <kr...@facebook.com>
>> To: "help-cfeng...@cfengine.org" <help-cfeng...@cfengine.org>
>> Subject: cfservd not honoring lastseen?
>>
>>
>> Hi, has anyone else had difficulty in completely turning off the lastseen
>> databases on the cfservd side (v2.2.10)? I've added "LastSeen = ( off )"
>> to the control section in update.conf, cfagent.conf and even
>> cfservd.conf.
>> According to the docs this is an option to cfagent, and not cfservd,
>> but I
>> thought I'd try adding it to cfservd.conf anyway.
>>
>> So even with this option set to 'off' or 'false' the lastseen database
>> files are populated per host on the server side, ex.
>> cf_LastSeen.db.$fqdn.
>> Running 'cfservd -d0' shows that lastseen is being set to 'off' (see
>> below), but if I clear out all the lastseen db files and restart the
>> cfservd process they are still populated. Can someone speak to what might
>> be instructing cfservd to populate those files? Maybe I'm missing an
>> option to either cfservd.conf or cfagent&update.conf?
>>
>> One interesting debug line is this one (full output below):
>>
>> GetMacroValue(server,LastSeenExpireAfter): using scope 'server' for
>> variable 'LastSeenExpireAfter'
>>
>> We don't define LastSeenExpireAfter on the client side, but maybe it
>> defaults to a value that instructs the server to record lastseen info?
>> I've tried setting LastSeenExpireAfter to '0', but that did not prevent
>> the server from creating the lastseen dbs.
>>
>> -Chris
>>
>>
>>
>> LVALUE LastSeen
>> HandleLVALUE(LastSeen) in action Control Defintions:
>> RecordMacroId(LastSeen)
>> EQUALS =
>> LEFTBRACK
>> RVAL-VAROBJ off
>> ExpandVarstring( off )
>> Add |off| to str, waiting at ||
>> Returning varstring (off)
>> IsInstallable(any) - true
>> Assign variable [LastSeen=off] when any)
>> AddMacroValue(server.LastSeen=off)
>> ExpandVarstring( off )
>> Add |off| to str, waiting at ||
>> Returning varstring (off)
>> Added Macro at hash address 1309 to object server with value LastSeen=off
>> RIGHTBRACK
>>
>> LastSeen(host.example.domain.com) reg
>> IPV4 address
>> sockaddr_ntop(10.0.0.100)
>> Found address (10.0.0.100) for host host.example.domain.com
>> GetMacroValue(server,LastSeenExpireAfter)
>> GetMacroValue(server,LastSeenExpireAfter): using scope 'server' for
>> variable 'LastSeenExpireAfter'
>>
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