The -10/01/-28163 20:59, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote :
> Forum: CFEngine Help
> Subject: Re: Finding the current user running cf-agent
> Author: zzamboni
> Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23960,23966#msg-23966
>
> Mike, you are correct, this works fine.
>
>
Yep, that seems lik
On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 09:46:03AM -0400, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote:
>Forum: CFEngine Help
>Subject: Cfengine chatroom at SILC
>Author: neilhwatson
>Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23875,23875#msg-23875
>
>Would anyone be interested in Cfengine chat room? I created a cfengin
Hi all
A policy file of mine is supposed to configure ntp on the systems.
Unfortunately, aptitude/dpkg hang requiring keyboard input, and cf-agent
hangs on them.
I've been searching for a way to timeout cf-agent on package
installations, with no luck. But I am sure there *must* be a way...
Any s
Forum: CFEngine Help
Subject: Re: cf-agent run time limit (hanging during package installation)
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23975,23976#msg-23976
http://cfengine.com/manuals/cf3-reference.html#expireafter-in-agent
There is a body in COPBL already.
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Il 17/11/2011 15:17, no-re...@cfengine.com ha scritto:
> http://cfengine.com/manuals/cf3-reference.html#expireafter-in-agent
>
> There is a body in COPBL already.
Oh, thanks so much Neil!!!
I've looked for "hang", "abort" and all possible synonyms, but of course
I missed on "expire" :(
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Il 17/11/2011 15:25, Marco Marongiu ha scritto:
> Oh, thanks so much Neil!!!
>
> I've looked for "hang", "abort" and all possible synonyms, but of course
> I missed on "expire" :(
Unfortunately, it doesn't work :(
I altered the "body agent control" in promises.cf, adding an
"expireafter => 1", b
On 11/17/2011 04:01 PM, Marco Marongiu wrote:
> Il 17/11/2011 15:25, Marco Marongiu ha scritto:
>> Oh, thanks so much Neil!!!
>>
>> I've looked for "hang", "abort" and all possible synonyms, but of course
>> I missed on "expire" :(
> Unfortunately, it doesn't work :(
>
> I altered the "body agent c
Il 17/11/2011 16:05, Mark Burgess ha scritto:
> If you have an interactive program waiting for input, then CFEngine's
> batch approach is not really compatible. You probably need to run
> the programs in non-interactive mode, and maybe close any input
> channels < /dev/null.
Wait... so we are acc
Forum: CFEngine Help
Subject: Re: cf-agent run time limit (hanging during package installation)
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23975,23983#msg-23983
Run your promise in verbose mode and see what Cf is telling apt or aptitude to
do. Package promises are v
On 11/17/2011 04:09 PM, Marco Marongiu wrote:
> Il 17/11/2011 16:05, Mark Burgess ha scritto:
>> If you have an interactive program waiting for input, then CFEngine's
>> batch approach is not really compatible. You probably need to run
>> the programs in non-interactive mode, and maybe close any
Il 17/11/2011 16:22, no-re...@cfengine.com ha scritto:
> Run your promise in verbose mode and see what Cf is telling apt or
> aptitude to do. Package promises are very tricky and Cfengine is not
> really to blame. Many package managers do not behave as expected.
I'm already doing that. aptitude,
>> Il 17/11/2011 16:05, Mark Burgess ha scritto:
>>> If you have an interactive program waiting for input, then CFEngine's
>>> batch approach is not really compatible. You probably need to run
>>> the programs in non-interactive mode, and maybe close any input
>>> channels< /dev/null.
>> Wait...
On 11/17/2011 09:31 AM, Marco Marongiu wrote:
> I can, of course, circumvent this specific behaviour, and I know that
> package managers may not be well suited for non interactive actions.
> Still, I find that cf-agent not being able to bail out of such a
> situation is kind of a bug. And a bad on
On 11/17/2011 04:31 PM, Marco Marongiu wrote:
> Il 17/11/2011 16:22, no-re...@cfengine.com ha scritto:
>> Run your promise in verbose mode and see what Cf is telling apt or
>> aptitude to do. Package promises are very tricky and Cfengine is not
>> really to blame. Many package managers do not beh
On 11/17/2011 04:35 PM, Nick Anderson wrote:
> On 11/17/2011 09:31 AM, Marco Marongiu wrote:
>
>> I can, of course, circumvent this specific behaviour, and I know that
>> package managers may not be well suited for non interactive actions.
>> Still, I find that cf-agent not being able to bail out o
Il 17/11/2011 16:32, Nick Anderson ha scritto:
> You probably need something like this.
>
> body agent control {
> # This is needed for packages that want some configuration like
> # postfix.
> environment => { "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive" };
> }
>
>
It's there already:
debian
Il 17/11/2011 16:35, Mark Burgess ha scritto:
> body agent control
> {
> environment => { "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive", "LANG=C" };
> }
As said, neither expireafter nor this is working for me, and I seem to
be not the only one having this kind of trouble:
https://cfengine.com/bugtracker/view
On 11/17/2011 04:42 PM, Marco Marongiu wrote:
> Il 17/11/2011 16:35, Mark Burgess ha scritto:
>> body agent control
>> {
>> environment => { "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive", "LANG=C" };
>> }
> As said, neither expireafter nor this is working for me, and I seem to
> be not the only one having thi
Il 17/11/2011 16:55, Mark Burgess ha scritto:
> You can try this and report on that bug tracker
> whether it works for you...?
it doesn't. I guess the variable setting with env is not exported by
apt-get to the dpkg subprocess. It is still hanging on user input.
For the record, this is how my bu
This works:
> body package_method aptget
> {
> package_changes => "bulk";
> package_list_command => "/usr/bin/dpkg -l";
> package_list_name_regex=> "ii\s+([^\s]+).*";
> package_list_version_regex => "ii\s+[^\s]+\s+([^\s]+).*";
> package_installed_regex => ".*"; # all reported are installed
>
Forum: CFEngine Help
Subject: Re: cf-agent run time limit (hanging during package installation)
Author: neilhwatson
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23975,23997#msg-23997
That assumes you want to keep the old configuration file rather than the new
one (--force-confew). See dp
Il 17/11/2011 17:35, no-re...@cfengine.com ha scritto:
> That assumes you want to keep the old configuration file rather than
> the new one (--force-confew). See dpkg man file under
> --force-things.
It does, because I assume that the configuration is taken care of by
cfengine.
Of course I could
Forum: CFEngine Help
Subject: Re: Cfengine isn't discovering all of your Solaris packages? This is
why.
Author: zzamboni
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23948,23999#msg-23999
Thanks Mike for posting this. I have checked in the fix into the COPBL svn
repository.
Il 17/11/2011 15:45, Ted Zlatanov ha scritto:
> this is because I only tested against Emacs 24, I didn't know prog-mode
> was not available in earlier ones. I will make the necessary changes.
Thanks a lot!!!
Ciao
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Forum: CFEngine Help
Subject: Re: putting cfengine mailing list on Gmane?
Author: zzamboni
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23979,24001#msg-24001
Ted,
The list had already been added to gmane:
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.cfengine.general
However for some reason
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