Hi again,
I've found in cfservd.c the lines which are responsible of the elimination
of the 'f' at the end of an identifier. More generally, every 'f' at the
end of a word and followed by a blank is discarded, I don't know why. It
looks as if the involved section of code has been forgotten in the
development process :-(
The comment just above the incriminated line says "Blank out -K -f". But
indeed it blanks out -K, -f, and 'f' followed by a blank :-( Just suppress
the blanking of 'f<blank>' and my problem disappears, but I can't figure if
it doesn't create another problem elsewhere...
<2.1.17, cfservd.c #1620>
1620c1620
< if ((strncmp(sp,"-K",2) == 0) || (strncmp(sp,"-f",2) == 0))
---
> if ((strncmp(sp,"-K",2) == 0) || (strncmp(sp,"-f",2) == 0) ||
(strncmp(sp,"f ",2) == 0))
</2.1.17 cfservd.c #1620>
I've checked in 2.1.16, the same line exists. Is it on purpose, or a relic
of the development ?
Patrice
----- Réacheminé par Patrice Guerlais/QVI/GRAF/FR le 28/11/2005 14:35 -----
Patrice
Guerlais/QVI/GRAF
/FR A
help-cfengine@gnu.org
28/11/2005 11:00 cc
Objet
Odd flag cut
Hi all,
I'm in the process of upgrading all my clients from 2.0.7p3 to 2.1.17. But
before that upgrade, I'm conducting some tests to ensure everything is ok,
and I've found a strange behaviour.
I've encapsulated the use of cfengine in a Perl application, which
generates some cfrun commands. The call of cfrun is done with parameters
(in a -Dxxx way), so as to inform the client of what has to be done.
Nothing fantastic in that use of cfengine.
What becomes strange is that when the flag is exactly 'cfengine_conf', the
last 'f' is lost between cfrun and cfservd. I tried a lot of other strings
to figure out what's going on. The conclusion is that any string which ends
with an 'f' looses this last character. Any other last character I tried
(g, h, ...) has been kept...
For example :
/usr/local/cfengine/sbin/cfrun -f /tmp/cfrun.hosts.16229 -T -v -- -v -Daf
<----------------- the final 'f' is present
<cut>
cfrun(0): .......... [ Hailing <client_ip> ] ..........
Connecting to server <client_ip> to port 0 with options -v -Daf
<----------------- the final 'f' is still present
(Non privileged user...)
Loaded /home/patrice/.cfengine/ppkeys/root-<client_ip>.pub
Connect to <client_ip> = <client_ip> on port cfengine
(Non privileged user...)
Loaded /home/patrice/.cfengine/ppkeys/root-<client_ip>.pub
cfrun:calao.france.airfrance.fr: Strong authentication of
server=<client_ip> connection confirmed
<client_ip> replies..
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- -
cfservd Executing /usr/local/cfengine/sbin/cfagent --no-splay --inform -v
-Da <---------------- the final 'f' has been lost
</cut>
The problem seems to me more probably located in cfservd than in cfrun,
because of the line 'cfservd Executing...' which is the first to show the
truncated flag, but I'm not definitely sure.
Does anybody ever heard of cf truncating the final 'f' in a flag ? I'm
going to dig into cfengine sources, but any information can help me to
explain faster that strange behaviour.
Last thing : I didn't try any other cfengine version between 2.0.7p3 and
2.1.17, so I don't know if that problem appeared in a previous version or
if it is specific to that last one.
Thanks for your help
Patrice
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