On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 15:20 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> PLEASE complain LOUDLY to the list about this bug!
Yes, this is a really annoying bug! It was really hard to figure out as
well. I've taken out the SIGCHLD line and now it works just fine with no
ill effects. Isn't SIG_IGN the default anyway? Why not just install a
signal handler that calls wait?
> Alas I suspect Mark doesn't have any RHEL3 systems and since
> only two of us have complained, he's not very motivated to
> fix it.
I also have a YellowDog 4 system, and it's broken there too.
> I don't know about you, but not being able to push and
> not being able to debug with "cfrun somehost" really sucks.
It really sucks, especially since I'm rolling out things right now and
doing a lot of debugging...
> - - -
>
> > ---- Original Message ----
> > From: Eric Dorland
> > 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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