Re: help with cfexecd/solaris/crontab

[Dmitry Sazonov]

Christian Pearce wrote:
> More importantly what does this return:
>
>     /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent -z -D from_cfexecd
>
> This will tell you exact what schedule is comfing from cfagent.conf.
> You need define the schedule there and not inside cfservd.conf.  Right?

I tried with or without the schedule. now I added it back  - ( any )

[root@inet640 inputs]# /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent -z -D from_cfexecd
[any]

but that dump core anyway: /usr/local/sbin/cfexecd --no-splay -F  -v -d2 

cfpopen(/var/cfengine/bin/cfagent -z -D from_cfexecd)
cfpclose(pp)
cfpopen - Waiting for process 15848
No schedule defined in cfagent.conf, defaulting to Min00_05
Appending [Min00_05]
Sleeping...
Segmentation Fault (core dumped)

> Don't run with a -v out of cron.  You will get messages ever 30 minutes.
> This is no good.

yes, that was for debug purposes.

> BTW: Ditch SMC's cfengine.  Go with www.blastwave.org's cfengine it is
> much better.  Or at least the way it is packages.  Plus they have 2.1.14
> out.  Which has important fixes.

Thanks, I'll try that package and report shortly...

>
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