Re: Multiple log files?

[Robert Shaw]

I actually think they may be a bug in the log file name and/or log 
output function during the "update" phase. If I put some simple 
"/bin/echo" shellcommands in the update.conf and cfagent.conf files, I 
get the following email output:

cfengine::/bin/echo      : update.conf successfully executed.
cfengine:myhost:/bin/echo      : cfagent.conf successfully executed.

I am running with cfexecd in daemon mode, so cfagent is getting called 
every hour from it. If you notice in the output, the hostname is blank 
(note: the double ':' after cfengine). The log file that is created is 
also missing the host name:  cfengine..runlog. So it looks like the 
host is not getting defined properly for the log file name and log line 
outputs. If I enable Syslog output, it looks like this:

Jan 28 22:01:57 myhost /opt/local/var/cfengine/bin/cfagent: Executing 
script /bin/echo      'update.conf successfully 
executed.'...(timeout=0,uid=-1,gid=-1)
Jan 28 22:01:57 myhost /opt/local/var/cfengine/bin/cfagent: Finished 
script /bin/echo      'update.conf successfully executed.'
Jan 28 22:02:11 myhost cfengine:myhost[2717]: Executing script 
/bin/echo      'cfagent.conf successfully 
executed.'...(timeout=0,uid=-1,gid=-1)
Jan 28 22:02:11 myhost cfengine:myhost[2717]: Finished script /bin/echo 
     'cfagent.conf successfully executed.'

The output is a little different during update.conf and cfagent.conf 
runs. The update lists the cfagent binary location in place of the host 
name right before the process id.

I haven't had time to look at the C code, but I do think there is some 
cosmetic bug here. Mark, can you take a look?

Thanks!
-Robert


On Jan 27, 2005, at 7:13 PM, Robert Shaw wrote:

> After starting up a new cfengine setup, I seem to have a collection of 
> "runlog" and "log" files with odd hostnames:
>
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel  344B 27 Jan 19:02 cfagent.myhost.local.log
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel  321B 27 Jan 19:00 cfengine..runlog
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel  191B 27 Jan 18:21 cfengine.localhost.runlog
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel   77B 27 Jan 18:03 
> cfengine.myhost.local.runlog
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel    3K 27 Jan 19:02 cfengine.myhost.runlog
>
> What causes the variation in the names? I have been experimenting with 
> removing the cfagent.conf and other various files to see if the 
> update.conf puts it back. This may be the cause of these files, but it 
> seems like at least more than one of them is getting updated with 
> every run, even when there is nothing to be updated.
>
> Is there some way to fix/hardcode or prevent these runlog filenames?
>
> -Robert
>
>
>
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