Re: loss of functionality from 1.6.0?

[Larry Bamford]

Well, -K didn't help.  I use -I routinely.  Here's some more interesting 
facts. 

1.  Setting action=warn works.  I.e., it correctly detects and reports 
that the source and dest files are different, with or without the -n 
option set. 
2.  With action=fix, running with -n -d2 produces evidence that it 
detects the difference, but it still doesn't report it per -n. 
3.  With action=fix, running without -n does in fact make the fix. 
4.  I've had the same trouble with the editfiles actiontype before.  The 
same is still true now.  A dry run doesn't report editfiles actions that 
are needed. 
5.  Same case with the directories actiontype.  A dry run won't report 
that a directory will be created (though it will report that it can't 
stat the directory that it thought it created during the dry run :-). 

I didn't go back and test 1.6.0 on all those points, because really I'm 
mostly concerned about the loss of reporting for the copy actiontype.  I 
don't remember editfiles or directories having this functionality 
before.  But copy did. 

Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:

> THere should not be a difference, except perhaps in the locking.
> It might be "too soon" to see the effect of this if you run one
> immediately after the other. Try with -K to ignore locking.
> This is probably just a misunderstanding that comes from the
> more consistent locking policy in v2.
>
> M
>
> On 15 Jan, Larry_Bamford@ao.uscourts.gov wrote:
>  
>
> > Under cfengine 1.6.0 I was used to running with the -n option ("All talk 
> > no action" mode) before turning it loose to actually make changes. 
> > Under 2.1.0p1 it doesn't tell me anything with -n anymore.  How can I 
> > get that information under 2.1.0p1?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Example on Solaris 9:
> >
> > # cfengine_1.6.0 -f ./cf.main -n -I -D hosts
> > cfengine:larrysun: Updating image /etc/inet/hosts from master 
> > /net/nfshost/etc/hosts on localhost
> > cfengine:larrysun: copy    from /net/nfshost/etc/hosts to /etc/inet/hosts
> > #
> > # cfengine_2.1.0p1 -f ./cf.main -n -I -D hosts
> > # cfengine_2.1.0p1 -f ./cf.main     -I -D hosts
> > cfengine:larrysun: Update of image /etc/inet/hosts from master 
> > /net/nfshost/etc/hosts on localhost
> > cfengine:larrysun: Group of /etc/inet/hosts was 1, setting to 3
> > cfengine:larrysun: /etc/inet/hosts had permission 600, changed it to 644
> > #
> >
> >    
>
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Larry Bamford
Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts