I think its a bit much to blame this on cfengine. Relying on a network service is always fragile.
However, I do think this is a good argument to put exception handling into version 3. M On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 17:26 +0100, Andrew Stribblehill wrote: > We run Cfengine across all of our servers and workstations in Durham. > One of the things it does is control the sendmail.cf file and HUP > sendmail if it changes. > > To determine whether or not a host is a mail exchanger, we have: > > groups: > mxes = ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) > > However, we lost access to NIS (the core router blew up) so our MXes > forgot that's what they were and reconfigured themselves, presumably > caching the negative response in nscd. Net result: we bounced a load > of legitemate mail. > > I believe that Cfengine could do better than this, by checking the > return code of setnetgrent() and (conditionally, perhaps) aborting if > it can't find the netgroup. > > What do other people think? > _______________________________________________ Bug-cfengine mailing list Bug-cfengine@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cfengine
