Re: cfd rejects improperly on first connect after config reload

[Alan Sparks]

Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:
> 
> On  9 Nov, Alan Sparks wrote:
> > Got a problem with 1.6.0.a11 cfd.  If the cfd.conf gets updated, the
> > following appears in syslog (and the remote cfrun is rejected):
> >
> > Nov  9 11:01:19 email06 cfengine:email06[12816]: Edited file
> > /etc/inet/hosts
> > Nov  9 11:15:40 email06 cfd[639]: Rereading config files
> > /opt/cfengine/etc/cfd.conf..
> > Nov  9 11:15:40 email06 cfd[639]: Host authentication failed or access
> > denied
> > Nov  9 11:15:40 email06 cfd[639]: Multithreaded version
> > Nov  9 11:17:03 email06 cfd[639]: Executing command
> > /opt/cfengine/sbin/cfengine ...
> >
> > So, cfd is rereading its config, then not working correctly for the
> > first connection (but OK on the second and subsequent tries).
> > Restarting cfd after a cfd change might be an option, I'm concerned
> > about restarting a cfd that might be already communicating with a remote
> > cfrun tho.
> >
> > Any fix or workaround for this?  Thanks.
> > -Alan
> >
> 
> --
> 
> I have not seen this problem.  Any more info you can provide
> would be useful if it is a problem.
> 
> Mark

This is on Solaris 2.7, compiled with gcc version 2.95.2.
I'll try to get it to do it running cfd -d3 and post results.
It's quite annoying. :-(
-Alan