This appears to be the bug I described to the bug-cfengine@gnu.org list a few weeks ago. Refer to
Subject: cfpclose() or "packages: under cfrun only" bug on RHEL3? Subject: fix for a bug in cfservd v2.1.11 A patch that shows up the problem... cfrun somehost -- -qv | grep SRDEBUG and a patch that fixes the problem follow. Mark has not mentioned if he's going to fix this problem. (I sure hope he does--as is, packages and processes actions via cfrun do not work on RHEL3 with cfengine 2.1.11 or better!) steve - - - systems & network manager high energy physics university of wisconsin > ---- Original Message ---- > From: Eric Dorland > Hello, > > I'm attempting to roll out cfengine to a bunch of our servers (and more > to come). I'm finally grokking everything, but I've run into one last > problem I can't seem to solve. I've got a setup with all my master files > are in a CVS repository. Cfagent pulls the files out of cvs whenever it > updates. I also have a script to run cfrun everytime I commit something > to the CVS repo. > > My problem is that cfagent is behaving differently when invoked from > cfrun than it's periodic runs from cfexecd. The periodic runs through > cfexecd work great. When I invoke cfrun however, the "packages" target > doesn't work. I have cfengine check to see if the ntp package is > installed. If it isn't it installs it using up2date. I know the ntp > package is installed, but whenever I invoke cfagent through cfrun the > packages target says it's not installed. When run through cfexecd > everything works as expected. > > I hope that was clear. I'm running the latest 2.1.13 on RHEL3. Has > anyone seen a similar problem? (Googling didn't come up with anything > similar). Let me know any debugging output I could provide that would be > helpful. Thanks. > > -- > Eric Dorland > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > WSG > 514.398-5023 ext. 09562 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine --- popen.c.orig 2005-02-22 15:10:40.000000000 -0600 +++ popen.c 2005-02-24 16:33:51.000000000 -0600 @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ FILE *pp = NULL; Debug("cfpopen(%s)\n",command); +Verbose("SRDEBUG: cfpopen(%s)\n",command); if ((*type != 'r' && *type != 'w') || (type[1] != '\0')) { @@ -632,6 +633,7 @@ { if (errno != EINTR) { +Verbose("SRDEBUG: cfpclose() failed: %s\n",strerror(errno)); return -1; } } --- popen.c.orig 2005-02-22 15:10:40.000000000 -0600 +++ popen.c 2005-02-24 16:46:46.000000000 -0600 @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ FILE *pp = NULL; Debug("cfpopen(%s)\n",command); +Verbose("SRDEBUG: cfpopen(%s)\n",command); if ((*type != 'r' && *type != 'w') || (type[1] != '\0')) { @@ -75,6 +76,9 @@ { return NULL; } + +/* HERE SR restoring default sig handler for SIGCHLD HERE */ +signal(SIGCHLD,SIG_DFL); if (pid == 0) { @@ -632,6 +636,7 @@ { if (errno != EINTR) { +Verbose("SRDEBUG: cfpclose() failed: %s\n",strerror(errno)); return -1; } } _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
