Alright, I did a bit more research and I discovered some more puzzling
things. From the debug ouput I have this:
GetMacroValue(main,RPMcommand)
cfpopen(/bin/rpm -q --queryformat "%{EPOCH}:%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}\n"
ntp)
Appending [(none):4.2.0-7]
cfpclose(pp)
cfpopen - Waiting for process 23981
RPM Package ntp not installed.
AddMultipleClasses(ntp_uninstalled)
So looking at the code this seems to indicate that the rpm command is
succeeding but the cfpclose.
And now I've found
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-cfengine/2005-02/msg00013.html
which describes the problem perfectly and there's a patch attached I'm
going to try. But this sounds like the fix, and I can confirm the
problem is still there in 2.1.13.
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 13:35 -0500, Eric Dorland wrote:
> 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.
>
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