Thanks, I shall look into this. M On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 17:26 -0400, Jason Kim wrote: > On Wednesday 05 October 2005 15:17, Mark Burgess wrote: > > Jason, I'm not sure if you have told us what version you are using. Is > > it the latest one? > I've confirmed these bugs on 2.1.15, planning on testing 2.1.16 this week. > However you've said that there were no major changes, so I assumed that if > any of what I was saying rang a bell you'd point it out. If these happen to > disappear with the new version, I will happily stop bugging you :-) > > > I am a bit sceptical about the need for such large > > patches when hundred of people seem to be getting on fine. > Again, I realize that the things I'm seeing are relatively minor, but they > are > still things that are broken and could be fixed. Hundreds of people may be > fine with extraneous log files and malformed email subject lines (personally > I could really care less), but I happen to have very picky eyes on this > project, and saying "oh, just ignore that" doesn't really cut it. However I > am in a position to try to improve things, so I'm offering my help. > > > Your message is hard to read, and is full of opinions rather than clear > > facts. If there is a problem I would like to help, but I tend to ignore > > long emails without clear content for lack of time. Best strategy to > > prompt me into action is short and clear. > I can understand and appreciate this, that's why I keep trying :-) I'll try > to > summarize below: > > * When cfexecd sends email, the from address can be (in some circumstances) > set differently in the smtp 'MAIL FROM:' and the 'From:' header set in the > message data. Is this behavior desired? If not, I offer to help fix it. If > so, there seem to be some oddities which I would like to clarify. > > * There are extraneous cfengine.*.runlog files getting generated. I have > studied the code extensively, and have come to the conclusion that cfexecd > has some flaws in the way it resolves hostnames. Assuming you agree to this > conclusion, I can offer a possible resolution, including a patch if you do > not have the time to provide assistance. All I ask is some guidance in > understanding your original intent. > > Those are the two issues at a very high level. I can provide detailed > instructions on replicating the problems and snippets of code where I believe > things to be in error, but in the interests of keeping things simple to pique > your interest I will leave it at that. Thanks for your time... > -JayKim
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