On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 12:13:40 -0400, Jeff McCune wrote: > Brendan Strejcek wrote: >> Brendan Strejcek wrote: >> >> >>> I'm getting output like this when I try to run "cfagent -q -K - >>> v -B": >>> >>> Checking copy from server:/path to /path >>> Connect to server = XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX, port =5308 >>> Found address (XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX) for host server >>> Updating last-seen time for server >>> cfengine:: Couldn't lookup IP address >>> cfengine:: gethostbyaddr: Unknown error: 0 >>> cfengine:: Id-authentication for client failed >>> cfengine:: Unable to establish connection with server (failover) >>> >> >> These problems ended up being specific to a particular client. >> I'm still not sure what the issues was, but it is not happening >> on other machines. >> >> The Darwinports install worked fine. For the list, this is how I >> set up cfengine on a Mac running OS X (10.3). >> >> Assuming you already have Xcode installed, this will work: >> >> ftp http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/downloads/DarwinPorts- >> 1.0.dmg hdiutil attach ./DarwinPorts-1.0.dmg cd >> /Volumes/DarwinPorts1.0 >> installer -pkg DarwinPorts.mpkg -target / # Can use -verbose >> option cd /; umount /Volumes/DarwinPorts1.0 export >> PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin port install cfengine >> # Create /opt/local/var/cfengine/ppkeys/root-${CFSERVD_IP}.pub # >> Create /opt/local/var/cfengine/inputs/update.conf ln -s >> /opt/local/var/cfengine /var/cfengine cp /opt/local/sbin/cfagent >> /var/cfengine/bin echo /opt/local/sbin/cfexecd >>/etc/rc.local >> chmod 755 /etc/rc.local /opt/local/sbin/cfexecd >> > > We run an extensive cfengine setup on about 200 Mac OSX machines > here at the Mathematics department of Ohio State University. I'm > currently in the process of rolling out my Tiger adaptation of our > cfengine configuration. > > In my experience, authentication errors with the policy host are > the most common problem. In my shop, they're mostly a result of a > host that moves from one hostname to another and the ppkeys no > longer match what the policy host's copy. > > Your message seems to indicate that the client can't perform a > reverse DNS lookup on the IP address to determine the hostname of > the policy host or it can't determine it's own hostname. I'd make > sure that your network configuration of the client is good to go. > > Hope this helps, > Jeff McCune > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
Some days ago, I had the same error message. DNS was not set up and it was not possible to ping the own hostname. Reason: the client didn't lookup his local files Solution: (for HP-UX) create /etc/nsswitch.conf with hosts=local,nis,bind Yves [EMAIL PROTECTED] am 07.07.2005 18:51:48Uhr _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
